Free Visual FDTD 2D Simulator to Support the Telecommunication Teaching-Learning Process

Author

Silva Santos, Carlos Henrique ; Hernandez Figueroa, Hugo Enrique

Volume

13

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

Mar-15

Firstpage

818

Lastpage

824

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Latin America Transactions, IEEE (Revista IEEE America Latina)

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1548-0992

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TLA.2015.7069110

Filename

7069110