Parallel computer modeling of complex electromagnetic systems

Author

Podgorski, A.S. ; Zaremba, M.B. ; Vogel, M.

Author_Institution

ASR Technol. Inc., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

213

Lastpage

216

Abstract

The HFSS frequency domain computer code, installed on an AIX-3 computer, was used to model a geometrically complex electromagnetic system operating over many decades of frequencies in nonhomogeneous media. First, we used a single processor unit, and then 16 processors operating in parallel. Since the Maxwell equations used in the HFSS code show no time dependence, parallel processing can be conducted not only for the frequency but also for the time domain modeling (using Fourier transform)

Keywords

Fourier transforms; Maxwell equations; digital simulation; electrical engineering computing; electromagnetic fields; frequency-domain analysis; inhomogeneous media; parallel algorithms; parallel machines; time-domain analysis; AIX-3 computer; Fourier transform; HFSS frequency domain computer code; Maxwell equations; complex electromagnetic systems; multiprocessor unit; nonhomogeneous media; parallel computer modeling; parallel processing; single processor unit; time dependence; time domain modeling; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Dielectric losses; Electromagnetic modeling; Finite difference methods; Finite element methods; Frequency; Moment methods; Predictive models; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2000. PARELEC 2000. Proceedings. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Trois-Rivieres, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0759-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCEE.2000.873631

Filename

873631