ECE 757 - Detailed Course Outline with
Lecture Notes
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Date |
Lecture |
Description |
September9th |
0 |
Organizational
Meeting |
September 16th |
Maxwell’s
Equations: Integral Form, Differential Form, The Constitutive Relationships. |
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Maxwell’s
Equations: Boundary Conditions, Time-Harmonic Fields, Power and
Energy Relationships. |
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September 23 |
The
TLM Method: Transient Response of a Transmission Line, Thevenin Equivalent, Sinusoidal Steady State, Discrete TLM models of Lumped Elements. |
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The
TLM Method: 1D TLM, Correspondence with Maxwell’s Equations. |
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October 7th |
The
TLM Method: 2D TLM using Shunt Nodes, Modeling of Free space,
Modeling of General Lossy Medium, Modeling of
Boundaries, The Johns Matrix Absorbing Boundaries, Dispersion in 2D TLM. |
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The
TLM Method: 3D TLM using Symmetric Condensed Nodes (SCN),
Applications. |
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October 28th |
The FDTD Method: Finite Difference Approximations (FDA) of Derivatives,
Yee’s Cell, Update Equations for the 3D case |
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November 4th |
The
FDTD Method: 2D FDTD, 1D FDTD, Stability. |
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9 |
The
FDTD Method:
Boundary Conditions, Mur’s 1st and 2nd
order ABC |
November 11th |
The
MoM: Differential
Equations and Their Solutions, Relation between Integral and Differential Equations,
the Green’s Function, Inner Products, Basis and Weighting Functions,
Formulation of the Method of Moments (MoM). |
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The
MoM: Applications |
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The
Finite Element Method (FEM): The Ritz Method, Galerkin’s
method, Introduction to FEM and General Steps, 1D FEM |
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The
Finite Element Method (FEM): 1D FEM, Applications |
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The
Finite Element Method (FEM): 2D FEM, Applications |
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The
Finite Element Method (FEM): Vector Finite Element |
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16 |
The
Mode Matching Method (MM): Basic Concepts |
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17 |
The
Mode Matching Method (MM): Applications |
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18 |
The
Beam Propagation Method: Basic concepts |
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19 |
The
Beam Propagation Method: Applications |
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20 |
Open
Discussion |
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