Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECE
757 - Course Information
COURSE: ECE 757: Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics (Fall
2016)
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Mohamed Bakr
SUPPORT LECTURERS: Dr. Natalia Nikolova
DETAILS: Office: ITB A219, Tel: 525-9140, ext 24079; e-mail: mbakr(at)mail.ece.mcmaster.ca
LECTURES: Fridays 9:30 am – 12:30 am in ITB A311
Course Outline
This
course provides a solid understanding of the computational electromagnetic
techniques used to model electromagnetic phenomena related to microwave and millimetre-wave engineering, antenna engineering and
wireless technology. We adopt a
systematic approach in which the complexity and dimension of the explained
techniques are increased starting with simple 1D problems. Lectures will cover the following topics:
1. Fundamentals of electromagnetic theory-revision.
2. Green’s functions in electromagnetic equations.
3. Method of Moments (MoM) and applications.
4. Finite Difference techniques and the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method.
5. Huygen’s principle and the time domain Transmission Line Modeling (TLM) method.
6. Variational approaches in electromagnetics and the Finite Element Method (FEM).
7. The Mode Matching (MM) Method .
8. The Beam Propagation Method (BPM)
9. Recent advances in numerical electrodynamics-open discussion.
Recommended texts:
R.F. Harrington, Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1961.
M.N.O. Sadiku, Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics, CRC Press, 1992.
R.C. Booton, Jr., Computational Methods for Electromagnetics and Microwaves, John Wiley & Sons, 1992.
Additional
Resources: A selection of literature papers.
Grading:
4 projects for 25% each. Students are expected to give presentations explaining their approaches. Part of the project grade is assigned to the presentation. All implementations are expected in Matlab.
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