Computing electromagnetic fields in engineering applications: A diakoptic approach

The trends and needs in the development of technologies like antennas and microwave circuits have clearly indicated a constantly increasing level of complexity of these structures, as well as the need of efficient and accurate analysis and synthesis tools. Such tools should provide an efficient yet accurate design approach, avoiding or minimizing the time consuming experimental optimization phase. In this paper, we present an overview of electromagnetic modelling techniques, responding to these trends, developed in the authors´ research groups.