Theoretical Overview and Practical Examples of the Electromagnetic Field Simulation Package FEKO

Speaker: Dr. Ulrich Jakobus (EMSS S.A.)

Time and Date: 13:30- , May. 12, 2014

Place: Room 1101, East Guanghua Building, Handan Campus

 

 

Abstract

The presentation will give a theoretical overview of the various computational methods implemented in the computer code FEKO (www.feko.info) for the solution of electromagnetic radiation and scattering problems. These include the Method of Moments (MoM) as applied to metallic and dielectric bodies, it accelerated version the Multilevel Fast Multiple Method (MLFMM), the Finite Element Method (FEM) and high frequency asymptotic methods (PO, UTD, RL-GO). In particular also the hybridisation of these will be discussed. Practical examples are used to illustrate the application of these methods to the solution of real world problems in the areas of antenna design and placement, electromagnetic compatibility, radar scattering, and bio-electromagnetics.

 

 

Biography

Ulrich Jakobus received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1991 and 1994, respectively. He completed his Habilitation in 1999 and became Privatdozent for Radio Frequency Technology at the same university.

From 1991 to 2000 he has been employed at the Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik, University of Stuttgart, Germany. There his main areas of research included numerical techniques in electromagnetics, antennas, electromagnetic compatibility, and bioelectromagnetics. Of particular interest were hybrid methods combining the Method of Moments with high frequency asymptotic techniques and this research laid the foundations for the commercial electromagnetics code FEKO.

Since 2000 Dr. Jakobus has been Director of EM Software & Systems-S.A. (Pty) Ltd in Stellenbosch, South Africa, and since 2002 also of EM Software & Systems GmbH in Böblingen, Germany, focusing on the development of FEKO as FEKO Product Manager.

Dr. Jakobus has published extensively on computational electromagnetics and related topics, and received several awards for his research, including the ACES 1996 Outstanding Paper Award and the Heinz -Maier Leibnitz prize 1998 by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Dr. Jakobus is a member of URSI commission B, the IEEE (elected to the grade of Fellow in 2013), the German VDE/ITG, and a member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), where he was also elected Fellow in 2013 and currently serves on the Board of Directors.