Fast and precise computation of electrostatic fields with a charge simulation method using modern programming techniques

Author

Schmidt, Silvester ; Zech, Günter ; Otto, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Fachbereich Phys., Siegen Univ., Germany

Volume

32

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

5/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1457

Lastpage

1460

Abstract

A method to reduce the computational effort for numerical calculation of electrostatic fields by a charge simulation method is introduced. By simplifying complex charge configurations for the evaluation of the field at large distances, the computation time can be reduced considerably preserving high precision. Since the method is ideally suited to object-oriented programming it has been implemented in C++

Keywords

C language; computational complexity; digital simulation; electric fields; electrical engineering; electrical engineering computing; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; C++ language; charge configurations; charge simulation method; computation time reduction; electrostatic field computation; large distances; numerical calculation; object-oriented programming; programming techniques; Computational modeling; Electrodes; Electrostatics; Microstrip components; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Optical computing; Optical imaging; Radiation detectors; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.497523

Filename

497523