Project Info
Modeling Multi-Scale Electromagnetic Phenomena
Mohammed Hadi | mhadi@mines.edu
The aim is to extend present technologies for modeling and predicting electromagnetic phenomena to efficiently use computing resources optimized numerical techniques. When successful, the resulting technique would allow modeling complex structures on typical personal computers as opposed to high-performing workstations that cost a 10 times as much. Typical benefiting applications are 5G antenna arrays, weather forecasting, and tunnel/mine communications.
The following link gives an idea of the 5G antenna complexity:
https://www.ansys.com/blog/how-to-design-antenna-array-5g-applications.
The FDTD numerical technique to model such a structure will be taught from scratch, using available software tools.
Grand Engineering: Engineer the tools of scientific discovery
Student Preparation
Qualifications
The student needs good grounding in MATLAB as a programming language. A course in numerical methods will be most beneficial.
Time Commitment
10 hours/week
Skills/Techniques Gained
-Ability to test codes and visualize large-scale data.
-Ability to develop and optimize antenna designs.
-Ability to use Graphical Processing Units for fast computations.
-High potential of producing scientific publications.
Mentoring Plan
Student will benefit from weekly one-to-one meetings as well as research group meetings. Student will be provided with starting codes, taught the underlying techniques and guided through producing usable data for scientific publications.