Computational Electromagnetics: Commercial State-of-the-Art and Scientific Roadmaps [EurAAP Corner]

The session of the EurAAP Working Group on Software convened at EuCAP last year should be considered a startup event. It was the first time that the working group established really close cooperation with software vendors in a mutual effort. The goal was to discuss the future of computational electromagnetics. This year, the immediate goal was to organize a session - with time reserved for discussion - between the antennas and propagation software and design research community, on the one hand, and the software vendors, on the other hand. The idea was to fi gure out whether it would be possible to establish a kind of common roadmap, by mutual consent, for the further development and use of numerical techniques and software tools. It is obvious that the input for this roadmap should partially come from the antennas-and-propagation software and designer community, since they are the fi nal “customers” of the software.