Educational software for wave propagation phenomena using MATLAB GUIs and FDTD method

Author

Elmagroud, Bachir ; Ziyyat, Abdelhak

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Electron. et Syst., Univ. Mohammed Premier (UMP), Oujda, Morocco

fYear

2012

fDate

17-20 April 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The aim of the work presented here is to develop an accurate and cheap electromagnetic simulation software that provides a virtual laboratory for studying the wave propagation proprieties. The numerical method used is the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) that has been successfully applied in many engineering fields. In addition, an easy-to-use MATLAB GUI handles all the parameters of the FDTD simulation and computes theoretical values of characteristics parameters of the wave propagation in different mediums. The software allows understanding the phenomena of electromagnetic wave propagation in a progressive manner starting with the case of one dimension to three dimensions, and finally it allows approaching particular cases like the metamaterials.

Keywords

computational electromagnetics; courseware; electromagnetic wave propagation; engineering education; finite difference time-domain analysis; graphical user interfaces; FDTD method; MATLAB GUI; educational software; electromagnetic simulation software; electromagnetic wave propagation; finite-difference time-domain method; metamaterials; virtual laboratory; wave propagation phenomena; Dielectric losses; Electromagnetic scattering; Finite difference methods; Graphical user interfaces; Software; Time domain analysis; FDTD; Graphic User Interfaces(GUI); animation; educational software; propagation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Marrakech

ISSN

2165-9559

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1457-2

Electronic_ISBN

2165-9559

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2012.6201120

Filename

6201120