Efficient partial element calculation and the extension to cylindrical elements for the PEEC method

For various electrical interconnect and EMC problems, the Partial Element Equivalent Circuit (PEEC) method has proven to be a valid and fast solution method of the electrical field integral equation in the time as well as the frequency domain. Therefore, PEEC has become a multi-purpose full-wave simulation method, especially suited for the solution of combined circuit and EM problems, as found on printed circuit board layouts, power electronics devices or EMC filters. Recent research introduced various extensions to the basic PEEC approach, for example a non-orthogonal cell geometry formulation. This work presents a fast, flexible and accurate computational method for determining the matrix entries of partial inductances and the coefficients of potential for general non-orthogonal PEEC cell geometries. The presented computation method utilizes analytical filament formulas to reduce the integration order and therefore to reduce computation time. The validity, accuracy and speed of the proposed method is compared with a standard integration routine on example cell geometries where the numeric results of the new method show improved accuracy, coming along with reduced computation time. Furthermore, this work shows an extension to cylindrical elements which is consistent with classical PEEC models, using the proposed integration routines for the partial element calculations.