Cellular automata as an environment for simulating electromagnetic phenomena

Author

Simons, Neil R S ; Bridges, Greg E. ; Podaima, Blake W. ; Sebak, Abdel R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Manitoba Univ., Winnipeg, Man., Canada

Volume

4

Issue

7

fYear

1994

fDate

7/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

249

Abstract

In this letter, the application of cellular automata to the modeling of electromagnetic phenomena is investigated. Cellular automata are fully discrete computational models (in space, time, and variables) and are exactly computable using digital hardware. One type of cellular automata, the HPP lattice gas automaton, is applied here to the modeling of two-dimensional electromagnetic field problems. Lattice gas automata can be completely described in terms of binary variables and are capable of providing linear wave behavior. Two examples are presented to explore the proposed approach: one-dimensional plane wave propagation and plane wave scattering from a perfectly conducting rectangular cylinder.<>

Keywords

cellular automata; electromagnetic fields; electromagnetic wave scattering; HPP lattice gas automaton; binary variables; cellular automata; electromagnetic phenomena; fully discrete computational models; linear wave behavior; one-dimensional plane wave propagation; perfectly conducting rectangular cylinder; plane wave scattering; two-dimensional electromagnetic field problems; Automata; Bridges; Computational modeling; Differential equations; Electromagnetic modeling; Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic scattering; Lattices; Navier-Stokes equations; Partial differential equations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8207

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/75.298255

Filename

298255