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EM programmer's notebook: Aspects of mesh generation for characteristic-mode analysis

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Davidson, David
Eichler, J.
Hazdra, P.
Capek, M.
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2014
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Davidson, D. and Eichler, J. and Hazdra, P. and Capek, M. 2014. EM programmer's notebook: Aspects of mesh generation for characteristic-mode analysis. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 56 (3): pp. 172-183.
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IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
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This paper deals with practical aspects of mesh generation for the theory of characteristic modes. First, we describe a tool for surface-mesh generation in MATLAB. The tool is afterwards used for an analysis of relative convergence of modal results computed by an in-house modal analyzer in MATLAB. Different meshing scenarios are selected for a dipole, a rectangular patch, and a rectangular patch with a slot, and a recommendation for a mesh-refinement strategy is given. The study is supported by a simple error analysis, considering the approximation error in the evaluation of moment-matrix elements. It is shown that the results are also applicable for the commercial implementation in FEKO software. © 1990-2011 IEEE.