Finite element methods for design of electromagnetic devices

虽然所有的电子设备本质上都是电磁的，但有一类重要的设备只有通过详细了解电磁场的行为才能正确地理解。这些是本提案标题中所指的“电磁设备”，包括电信系统中使用的许多微波部件。很长一段时间以来，工程师们一直使用计算机来模拟现场，以预测他们设计的性能，但工程师们想要分析的许多问题甚至超过了现代计算机的极限。设备变得越来越复杂，对精度的要求也越来越高。出于这个原因，仍然需要更好的模拟方法，本提案侧重于其中之一--有限元方法。具体地说，它的目标是在两个领域推进最先进的技术：

While all electrical devices are electromagnetic in nature, there is an important class of devices which can only be understood properly by knowing in detail how the electromagnetic field behaves. These are the "electromagnetic devices" referred to in the title of this proposal and they include many microwave components used in telecommunication systems. For a long time engineers have used computers to simulate the fields in order to predict the performance of their designs, but many of the problems that engineers want to analyze push the limits of even modern computers. Devices are becoming more complex and accuracy requirements greater. For this reason, there continues to be a need for better simulation methods and this proposal focuses on one them, the finite element method (FEM). Specifically, it aims to advance the state of the art in two areas: