COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering: Volume 32 Issue 6
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Near-field numerical analysis of surface plasmon polariton propagation on metallic gratings
Gianluca Ruffato, Filippo Romanato– The purpose of this paper is to simulate and analyze the excitation and propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on sinusoidal metallic gratings in conical mounting.
Scattering properties of carbon nanotubes
Andrea G. Chiariello, Carlo Forestiere, Giovanni Miano, Antonio MaffucciNowadays, nano-antennas or nanoscale absorbers made by innovative materials such as carbon nanotubes are gaining more and more interest, because of their outstanding features. The…
On some numerical aspects of the scattering problem by buried cylinders
Fabrizio Frezza, Lara Pajewski, Cristina Ponti, Giuseppe Schettini, Nicola Tedeschi– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the numerical aspects of the electromagnetic scattering of a plane wave by a set of buried cylinders.
Electromagnetic funneling through a single-negative slab paired with a double-positive transformation slab
Giuseppe Castaldi, Vincenzo Galdi, Andrea Alù, Nader EnghetaThe work is aimed at studying the electromagnetic interaction between a homogeneous, isotropic single-negative (SNG) slab and an inhomogeneous, anisotropic double-positive (DPS…
Experimental verification of metamaterial loaded small patch antennas
Kamil Boratay Alici, Mehmet Deniz Caliskan, Filiberto Bilotti, Alessandro Toscano, Lucio Vegni, Ekmel OzbayMetamaterial unit cells composed of deep subwavelength resonators brought up new aspects to the antenna miniaturization problem. The paper experimentally demonstrates a…
Finite element model of charge transport across ionic channels
Antonino Laudani, Salvatore Coco, Francesco Riganti FulgineiThe paper aims to illustrate the two kinds of analysis approach for which finite element method (FEM) can be successfully employed: the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) model and the…
Characteristic impedance of a microstrip line with a dielectric overlay
Mirko Barbuto, Andrea Alù, Filiberto Bilotti, Alessandro Toscano, Lucio Vegni– The purpose of this paper is to present an analytical expression for the characteristic impedance of a microstrip line in presence of a dielectric cover.
Dielectric-free multi-band frequency selective surface for antenna applications
Davide Ramaccia, Filiberto Bilotti, Alessandro Toscano, Lucio Vegni– The purpose of this paper is to design simple and high-performing screens capable to separate circularly polarized electromagnetic waves in Ku band from the ones in Ka band.
Achieving PMC boundary conditions through metamaterials
Alessio Monti, Luca Scorrano, Simone Tricarico, Filiberto Bilotti, Alessandro Toscano, Lucio VegniThe purpose of this paper is to show how metamaterials with extreme values of permittivity and permeability, may be effectively used to design artificial magnetic conductors (AMC…
Review of parallel and distributed architectures for micromagnetic codes
Omar Khan, Fiaz Khan, Carlo Ragusa, Bartolomeo MontrucchioRapid advancements in computer technologies over the past decade have recorded significant growth in the area of computational micromagnetics. As a result, current micromagnetic…
A comparison between hybrid methods: FEM-BEM versus FEM-DBCI
Giovanni Aiello, Salvatore Alfonzetti, Giuseppe Borzì, Santi Agatino Rizzo, Nunzio Salerno– The purpose of this paper is to compare the hybrid FEM-BEM and FEM-DBCI methods for the solution of open-boundary static and quasi-static electromagnetic field problems.
Electroporation of bone cancer: numerical evaluation of the electric field in treated tissues
Bruno Bisceglia, Francesca de Terlizzi, Antonio Scaglione, Nicola Francesco TallarinoElectrochemotherapy (ECT) is an outstanding technique for treatment of tumor nodules which is currently used for treatment of skin metastases, and now it is being developed for…
Finite element design of CNT-based multilayer absorbers
Ugo d'Elia, Giuseppe Pelosi, Stefano Selleri, Ruggero TaddeiA design procedure for multi-layer absorbers based on carbon nanotubes (CNT) frequency selective surfaces (FSS) sheets is here developed. The paper aims to discuss there issues…
Application of ON/OFF method to new conceptual design of magnetic devices
Norio TakahashiThe purpose of the paper is to show that how a new magnetic circuit, which the paper could not imagined beforehand, may be obtained using a newly developed ON/OFF topology…
Optimization of multistage depressed collectors using fem and parallel algorithm MeTEO
Salvatore Coco, Antonino Laudani, Giuseppe Pulcini, Francesco Riganti Fulginei, Alessandro SalviniThis paper aims the application of a novel hybrid algorithm, called MeTEO, based on the combination of three heuristics inspired by artificial life to the optimization of…
Neural-FEM approach for the analysis of hysteretic materials in unbounded domain
Salvatore Coco, Antonino Laudani, Francesco Riganti Fulginei, Alessandro SalviniThis paper aims the application of a novel synergy between a neural network (NN) and the finite element method (FEM) in the solution of electromagnetic problem involving…
Hysteresis parameters estimation using a modified harmony search
Leandro dos Santos Coelho, Viviana Cocco Mariani, Marsil de Athayde Costa e Silva, Nelson Jhoe Batistela, Jean Vianei LeiteThe purpose of this paper is to introduce a chaotic harmony search (CHS) approach based on the chaotic Zaslavskii map to parameters identification of Jiles-Atherton vector…
A novel approach to analysis and design of bang-bang CDR circuits
Habib Adrang, Hossein Miar-NaimiBang-bang clock and data recovery (BBCDR) circuits are hard nonlinear systems due to the nonlinearity introduced by the binary phase detector (BPD). The specification of the CDR…
Elimination of common mode voltage using phase shifted dual source matrix converter with improved modulation index
Senthilkumaran Mahadevan, Siddharth Raju, Ranganath MuthuThe high-frequency common-mode voltage introduced by power converters, using conventional modulation techniques, results in common-mode current that has the potential to cause…
Evaluation of the horizontal electric field of the lightning channel with the fast convergent sommerfeld integral tail
Jun Zou, Chenglong Zhou, Wenwen Li, Jae-bok Lee, Sughun ChangThe electromagnetic field radiated from a lightning channel is the excitation for analyzing the field-to-transmission line coupling problem. The purpose of this paper is to…
On the evaluation of input impedance and transient impedance for grounding electrodes using antenna theory
Damir Cavka, Dragan PoljakThe purpose of this paper is to propose a fast, accurate and efficient algorithm for assessment of input impedance and consequently the evaluation of transient impedance of the…
Winding functions in transient magnetoquasistatic field-circuit coupled simulations
Sebastian Schöps, Herbert De Gersem, Thomas WeilandThe purpose of this paper is to review the mutual coupling of electromagnetic fields in the magnetic vector potential formulation with electric circuits in terms of (modified…
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