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Comparison Of Finite-Difference And Analytic Microwave Calculation Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

F. I. Friedlander ,
H. W. Jackson ,
M. Barmatz  and
P. Wagner
F. I. Friedlander
Affiliation:
Communications and Power Industries, PO Box 50750, Palo Alto, CA 94303
H. W. Jackson
Affiliation:
Communications and Power Industries, PO Box 50750, Palo Alto, CA 94303
M. Barmatz
Affiliation:
Communications and Power Industries, PO Box 50750, Palo Alto, CA 94303
P. Wagner
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109
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Abstract

Normal modes and power absorption distributions in microwave cavities containing lossy dielectric samples were calculated for problems of interest in materials processing. The calculations were performed both using a commercially available finite-difference electromagnetic solver and by numerical evaluation of exact analytic expressions. Results obtained by the two methods applied to identical physical situations were compared. Our studies validate the accuracy of the finite-difference electromagnetic solver. Relative advantages of the analytic and finitedifference methods are discussed.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 430: Symposium O – Microwave Processing of Materials V , 1996 , 333
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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