J. Hannemann
My PhD thesis is titled Hybrid Field Analysis of the Canonical GTEM-Cell - An Object-Oriented Approach..
A GTEM-Cell is a device to conduct testing for Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC). In my thesis, I present a novel approach to deal with the higher-order modes that are generated in the transition region between the coaxial line power feed and the cell waveguide, based on an analytical model for the cell geometry and a numeric Method of Moments (MoM) approach. See also the abstract.
The complexity of the problem is mirrored in the complexity of the simulation computer code. To deal with this, a state-of-the art software engineering approach based on the object-oriented paradigm and Design by Contract has been pursued.
In the second part of the thesis, I discuss the boundary conditions of such an approach with respect to scientific computing and demonstrate a complete toolchain for program development and quality assurance based exclusively on free software.
A major result of this effort is TETlib, a reusable, object-oriented library for scientific computing, which is freely available under the GNU Project's Lesser General Public License.
A series of two articles about this has been featured in the May/June 2001 and July/August 2001 issues of Computing in Science and Engineering.
You can purchase both a printed and electronic copy of the thesis from my publisher, if you want to support a starving scientist. If you are a starving student or scientist yourself, feel free to download the printed version (typeset twosided for optimal hardcopy printouts) or the electronic version (typeset onesided, fully hyperlinked for comfortable reading online) from this site.
Please note that I do not further restrict the download and use of my thesis. However, I kindly request that you do the ethical thing and obtain a paid copy if you intend to use it in a for-profit project.
Of course, the same holds true for the first and second part of the CiSE articles.
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