Computational Electromagnetics for RF and Microwave Engineering

DAVID DAVIDSON received his PhD in 1991 from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa where he is currently a Professor in the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona, a visiting fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and was a guest Professor at the International Research Centre for Telecommunications-Transmission and Radar at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He has authored or co-authored 38 papers in refereed journals and co-edits the EM Programmer's Notebook column in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation magazine. David is a member of the IEEE, ACES, and SAIEE and served as chairman of the South African IEEE AP/MTT Chapter from 1996-8. He also served as the national convener of the NRF's Engineering Assessment Committee in 2002 and is the Principal Grantholder of the HF Electromagnetic and Electronic Engineering research consortium, funded by the NRF.

1. An overview of computational electromagnetics for wireless and RF applications; 2. The finite-difference time-domain method: a one-dimensional introduction; 3. The finite-difference time-domain method in two and three dimensions; 4. A one-dimensional introduction to the method of moments: thin-wire modelling; 5. The application of the Feko and NEC2 codes to thin-wire antenna modelling; 6. The method of moments for surface modelling; 7. The method of moments and stratified media: theory; 8. The method of moments and stratified media: practical applications of a commercial code; 9. An introduction to the finite element method; 10. A selection of more advanced topics on the finite element method.