Interactive display of vector fields inside waveguides

Author

Elsherbeni, Atef Z. ; Kajfez, Darko ; Hawkes, John A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Mississippi Univ., University, MS, USA

Volume

36

Issue

2

fYear

1993

fDate

5/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

283

Lastpage

286

Abstract

The educational software package WGVMAP has been developed to enable students to plot interactively the electric and magnetic field lines of TE and TM propagating modes in cylindrical waveguides. The waveguide cross-sections considered are rectangular, circular, sectoral, and circular with a conducting baffle. The vector field display and generation of the field lines can be performed on a very modest configuration of an IBM PC or compatible computer, and plotted on an x-y plotter. Examples are presented to demonstrate the interactive procedure for generating the field lines

Keywords

computer aided instruction; education; electrical engineering computing; electromagnetic field theory; graphical user interfaces; microcomputer applications; software packages; teaching; waveguide theory; CAI; EM field theory; GUI; IBM PC; WGVMAP; cross-sections; cylindrical waveguides; education; interactive display; propagating modes; software package; students; teaching; vector fields; waveguide theory; x-y plotter; Computer displays; Electromagnetic fields; Electromagnetic waveguides; Grid computing; Magnetic fields; Microcomputers; Planar waveguides; Rectangular waveguides; Tellurium; Waveguide components;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/13.214715

Filename

214715