The electromagnetic simulation software package MAFIA 4

Author

Clemens, M. ; Drobny, S. ; Krüger, H. ; Pinder, P. ; Podebrad, O. ; Schillinger, B. ; Trapp, B. ; Weiland, T. ; Wilke, M. ; Bartsch, M. ; Becker, U. ; Zhang, M.

Author_Institution

Fachbereich Elektrotech und Informationstech., Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

565

Lastpage

568

Abstract

MAFIA 4 is a general purpose electromagnetic simulation software package, which has found wide application in various research and industrial institutions. The program is based on the finite integration theory and covers all main aspects of this grid-based discrete electromagnetic field theory. New developments for MAFIA 4 are the TL3 code module for simulation of transient magnetoquasistatic fields including effects of nonlinear material and eddy currents induced by moving conductors and the module H3 for coupled transient thermal and electromagnetic field simulation. The FDTD code-module T3 now features gyrotropic materials using a state space formulation and perfectly matched layer boundary conditions. The postprocessor of the package is enhanced with a comfortable VRMIL 2.0 visualization facility.

Keywords

data visualisation; digital simulation; eddy currents; electrical engineering computing; electromagnetic field theory; electromagnetic wave propagation; finite difference time-domain analysis; software packages; transient analysis; FDTD code-module T3; MAFIA 4; TL3 code module; VRMIL 2.0 visualization facility; coupled transient thermal and electromagnetic field simulation; eddy currents; electromagnetic simulation software package; finite integration theory; grid-based discrete electromagnetic field theory; gyrotropic materials; module H3; moving conductors; nonlinear material; perfectly matched layer boundary conditions; postprocessor; state space formulation; transient magnetoquasistatic fields; Application software; Computer industry; Conducting materials; Eddy currents; Electromagnetic coupling; Electromagnetic field theory; Electromagnetic transients; Magnetic materials; Software packages; Thermal conductivity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Electromagnetics and Its Applications, 1999. Proceedings. (ICCEA '99) 1999 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5802-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCEA.1999.825246

Filename

825246