EE 256: Numerical Electromagnetics

Contents

• Basic Course Info
• Course Outline
• Lecture Notes
• Text and References
• Prerequisite
• Course Requirements

Lectures

250-251K, MWF 9:00 - 9:50 AM

Teaching staff

Instructor: Umran Inan Office: Packard 355 Tel: 723-4994 Email: inan@stanford.edu Office hours: T/Th 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Administrative Associate: Shaolan Min Office: Packard 356 Tel: 723-7712 Fax: 723-9251 Email: smin@stanford.edu
Teaching Assistant: Robert Marshall Office: Packard306 Tel: 725-7396 Email: ram80@stanford.edu Office hours: TBD

Course Outline

• Review of Electromagnetic Waves

• Partial Differential Equations and Physical Systems

• Finite Difference Solutions of the Convection Equation

• The FDTD Grid and the Yee Algorithm in 2- and 3-Dimensions

• Numerical Stability, Dispersion and Dissipation

• Wave Sources in Numerical Schemes

• Total Field/Scattered Field Formulation

• Absorbing Boundary Conditions, including Mur, Radiation, and Perfectly Matched Layer

• Dispersive Materials and Debye Materials

• Other topics as time permits

Texts

• Primary Texts:

  Course notes that will be handed out as the quarter progresses.

  Computation Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, by Allen Taflove and Susan Hagness, 2^nd ed., Artech House, 2000

   

• Related Texts, available from the Engineering Library:

  The Finite Difference Time Domain Method for Electromagnetics , by Karl S. Kunz & Raymond J. Luebbers, CRC Press

  Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics , by Matthew & N. O. Sadiku

  Analysis Methods for Electromagnetic Wave Problems , by Eikichi Yamashita, Volume 2, Artech House

  Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists , by Joe D. Hoffman, McGraw-Hill, Inc.

  Advances in Computational Electrodynamics, The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method , by Allen Taflove, Artech House

  Advances in Computational Electrodynamics Field Computation by Moment Methods , by  Roger F. Harrington, IEEE

  Computational Methods for Electromagnetics , by Andrew F. Peterson, Scott L. Ray, & Raj Mittra, IEEE

  Quick Finite Elements for Electromagnetic Waves , by Giuseppe Pelosi, Roberto Coccioli, & Stefano Selleri, Artech House

  Computational Electromagnetics , by Korada Umashankar & Allen Taflove, Artech House

  Computational Physics , by D. Potter,  John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

   

• Papers:

  Zheng, F., Z. Chen, and J. Zhang, A Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method Without the Courant Stability Conditions, IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, 9, 11, 1999.  

  Zheng, F., Z. Chen, and J. Zhang, Toward the Development of a Three-Dimensional Unconditionally Stable Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 48, 9, 2000.

  Zheng, F. and Z. Chen, Numerical Dispersion Analysis of the Unconditionally Stable 3-D ADI-FDTD Method, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 49, 5, 2001.

  Chew, W. C. and W. H. Weedon, A 3D perfectly matched medium from modified Maxwell's equations with stretched coordinates, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 7, 13, 599-604, 1994.

  Berenger, J. P., A Perfectly Matched Layer for the Absorption of Electromagnetic Waves, Journal of Computational Physics, 114, 185-200, 1994.

  Chevalier, M. W. and U. S. Inan, A PML Using a Convolutional Curl Operator and a Numerical Reflection Coefficient for General Linear Media, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 52, 7, 2004.

Prerequisites

EE142: Electromagnetic Waves or equivalent.

Course Requirements

• Homeworks: Handed out intermittently and due the following Friday. You will always have more than one week for each homework. There will be five homeworks in total.

• Midterm: TBD

• Project: The final project is the major component of this class. For this project you will choose a topic of interest to you; discussions with the TA will determine if the project is of suitable complexity. 

• Grading: Tentatively set at 40% Homework, 30% Midterm, 30% Final Project.

• Lecture Notes: Handed out intermittently. They will be made available on this website at the same time they are distributed in class.

Last updated: Friday, 30-Mar-2007 17:11:56 PDT