Title :
Free Visual FDTD 2D Simulator to Support the Telecommunication Teaching-Learning Process
Author :
Silva Santos, Carlos Henrique ; Hernandez Figueroa, Hugo Enrique
Abstract :
This work presents the integration of different computational techniques to specify and design a new computational electromagnetic simulator, called Free Visual FDTD 2D (FV-FDTD-2D), to support the Telecommunications teaching-learning process. Some Software Engineering, human-computer interface (HCI) and an advanced numerical method, based on Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD), were successfully integrated. It provides an efficient processing and usable software, which detailed documents for developers and comprehensive graphical output results. The FV-FDTD-2D has been adopted in some technical lectures related to telecommunications, presenting successful evaluations by the attempted public.
Keywords :
computational electromagnetics; computer aided instruction; digital simulation; finite difference time-domain analysis; human computer interaction; software engineering; teaching; telecommunication computing; telecommunication engineering education; FV-FDTD-2D simulator; Free Visual FDTD 2D simulator; HCI; computational electromagnetic simulator; computational techniques; finite difference time domain; human-computer interface; numerical method; software engineering; telecommunication teaching-learning process; usable software; Communications technology; Computational modeling; Finite difference methods; Software; Time-domain analysis; Unified modeling language; Visualization; Computational Electromagnetic; Human-Computer Interface; Software Engineering;
Journal_Title :
Latin America Transactions, IEEE (Revista IEEE America Latina)
DOI :
10.1109/TLA.2015.7069110
