Lift-off

Written By Robert Fennis

After a good amount of work, lift-off is finally there.

The first major step was implementing the second order edge element basis function required for solving EM FEM problems in the frequency domain.

Ive since been able to implement the Lumped port boundary condition, first order absorbing boundary condition and some further CAD functionality.

From here on out the goal is to work as fast as possible towards a product to release so that people can play around and give feedback.

In order to take this step there are a few steps that need to be completed first.

  • PML needs to be implemented for actual proper domain termination.

  • More advanced CAD features through the GMSH CAD interface.

  • Proper integration of the Far-field plot.

Once this is done, my next steps will be to clean up the code and release a first test version. There are a lot of cool features that are at the front of the line for implementation.

  • Automatic data generation for Matplotlib plotting.

  • Improvement to the dataset class for a better communication with the available data.

  • 2nd order ABC

  • Periodic boundary conditions

  • Better visualization features.

For now I can demonstrate some of the results I’ve been getting in simulating various stripline features!


Robert Fennis
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