A Mesh-Free Particle Method for Transient Full-Wave Simulation

Author

Ala, Guido ; Francomano, Elisa ; Tortorici, Adele ; Toscano, Elena ; Viola, Fabio

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica e delle Telecomunicazioni, Universita degli Studi di Palermo

Volume

43

Issue

4

fYear

2007

fDate

4/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1333

Lastpage

1336

Abstract

A mesh-free particle method is presented for electromagnetic (EM) transient simulation. The basic idea is to obtain numerical solutions for the partial differential equations describing the EM problem in time domain, by using a set of particles, considered as spatial interpolation points of the field variables, arbitrarily placed in the problem domain and by avoiding the use of a regular mesh. Irregular problem geometry with diffused nonhomogeneous media can be modeled only with an initial set of arbitrarily distributed particles. Consistency recovery strategy of the numerical scheme is discussed and enforced. The time dependence is accounted for with an explicit finite-difference scheme. Comparison with analytical solution for a 2-D case study is shown

Keywords

computational electromagnetics; finite difference methods; inhomogeneous media; interpolation; partial differential equations; time-domain analysis; arbitrarily distributed particles; consistency recovery strategy; electromagnetic transient simulation; finite difference scheme; irregular problem geometry; mesh-free particle method; nonhomogeneous media diffusion; numerical simulations; partial differential equations; spatial interpolation points; transient full-wave simulation; Electromagnetic compatibility; Electromagnetic transients; Finite difference methods; Geometry; Hydrodynamics; Interpolation; Kernel; Partial differential equations; Smoothing methods; Telecommunications; Electromagnetic (EM) transient analysis; mesh-free particle methods; smoothed particle interpolation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2007.892411

Filename

4137657