ECE 750 - Detailed Course Outline with
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Date |
Lecture |
Description |
Sept. 8 |
1 |
Organizational
Meeting |
Sept. 15 |
Maxwell’s
Equations: Integral Form, Differential Form, The Constitutive Relationships. |
|
Sept. 17 |
Maxwell’s
Equations: Boundary Conditions, Time-Harmonic Fields, Power and
Energy Relationships. |
|
Sept. 22 |
The TLM
Method: Transient
Response of a Transmission Line, Thevenin Equivalent, Sinusoidal Steady
State, Discrete TLM models of Lumped Elements. |
|
Sept. 24 |
The TLM
Method: 1D
TLM, Correspondence with Maxwell’s Equations. |
|
Sept. 29 |
|
Class
Cancelled |
Oct. 1 |
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. |
|
Oct. 6 |
The TLM
Method:
3D TLM using Symmetric Condensed Nodes (SCN), Applications. |
|
|
First Project |
|
Oct. 8 |
Auxiliary Vector Potentials: Magnetic Vector Potential, Electric Vector Potential,
Construction of Solutions using Potentials. |
|
Oct. 13 |
9 |
Class Cancelled: Thanksgiving |
Oct. 15 |
Auxiliary Vector Potentials:
Solution of Vector Potential Wave
Equations, Applications. |
|
Oct. 20 |
The FDTD Method: Finite Difference Approximations (FDA) of Derivatives,
Applications in Solving Differential Equations. |
|
Oct. 22 |
The FDTD
Method:
1D FDTD, Stability. |
|
Oct. 27 |
The FDTD
Method:
2D
FDTD, 3D FDTD. |
|
Oct. 29 |
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The FDTD
Method:
|
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Second
Project |
|
Nov. 3 |
Electromagnetic
Theorems: Duality
Theorem, Uniqueness Theorem, Image Theory, Reciprocity Theorem, Surface
Equivalence Theorem, Applications |
|
Nov. 5 |
The MoM: Differential Equations and Their Solutions,
Relation between Integral and Differential Equations, The Green’s Function. |
|
Nov. 10 |
The MoM: Inner Products,
Basis and Weighting Functions, Formulation of the Method of Moments (MoM). |
|
Nov. 12 |
17 |
The MoM: Applications |
|
Third Project |
|
Nov. 19 |
The Finite
Element Method (FEM):
The Ritz Method, Galerkin’s method, Introduction to FEM and General
Steps, 1D FEM |
|
Nov. 24 |
The Finite
Element Method (FEM):
2D FEM, Applications |
|
Nov. 26 |
The Finite
Element Method (FEM):
3D FEM, Applications |
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Fourth
Project |
Dec. 1 |
21 |
Final
Examination |
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