Using spreadsheet programs on personal computers for electromagnetic coupling calculations

The spreadsheet format guides the analyst into thinking of the electromagnetic coupling process as an energy flow from the source or culprit to the receiver or victim by a number of discrete coupling processes each describable by a rather simple model. The spreadsheet also allows the EMC engineer to see the results of all the intermediate steps in the calculation, thus providing a much clearer insight into the coupling process than that which is usually obtained from more elaborate special purpose computer codes. The paper demonstrates the use of a spreadsheet program to solve electromagnetic coupling problems in the frequency domain