White Paper: Computational Magic And The EMC Engineer

By Dr. Glen Dash, Ampyx LLC

In decades past, the EMC engineer had three basic methods for evaluating EM phenomenon: Maxwell's Equations, circuit models, and fieldwork. The development of electromagnetic computational methods now provides us with another tool. In its current state of development, however, computational tools will not completely replace any of the methods above. Computer modeling of EM phenomenon in three dimensions requires a host of assumptions that make computational modeling a tricky business. To do it well, the engineer should not only have a working knowledge of Maxwell's Equations, but should be familiar with the equally complex field of numerical analysis as well.

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