Dec 14, 2025  
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ECE 570 - Computational Electromagnetics


Course Career Graduate
Units 3
Approved Hours 3-0-0
Fee index 6
Faculty Engineering
Department Electrical & Computer Engg
Typically Offered either term

Description
Review of techniques and applications in compational electromagnetics. Finite-Difference Time-Domain solution of Maxwell’s equations: boundary conditions, numerical stability, numerical dispersion, near-to-far field transformation. Introduction to Finite-Elements Technique: basis and weighting functions, Galerkin’s method, nodal and edge elements, variational formulation, applications. Introduction to the Method of Moments: integral formulation of electrostatics, Green’s function, point matching and Galerkin’s method, treatment of open regions.