Software:HOBBIES (electromagnetic solver)

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HOBBIES is a general purpose electromagnetic solver for various applications.[1] The name is an acronym for Higher Order Basis Based Integral Equation Solver.

The software is based on the Method of Moments (MoM),[2] and it employs higher order polynomials as the basis functions for the frequency domain integral equation solver.

The higher-order basis functions can significantly reduce the number of unknowns compared with the traditional piece-wise basis functions, e.g., Rao-Wiltion-Glisson triangular patch basis functions (RWGs).

HOBBIES can be used to solve various types of electromagnetic field problems including antenna design, antenna placement, scattering analysis, EMI/EMC analysis, etc.

The software pioneered the commercial implementation of parallel computation for solving extremely electrically large problems using modest computational resources.[3]

References

  1. Y. Zhang, T. K. Sarkar, X. Zhao, D. Garcia-Donoro, W. Zhao, M. Salazar, and S. Ting, Higher Order Basis Based Integral Equation Solver (HOBBIES), John Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2012. (has the code in the book) ISBN:9781118140659.
  2. R. F. Harrington (1968). Field Computation by Moment Methods. Latest printing by IEEE Press in 1993, ISBN:0780310144.
  3. Y. Zhang and T. K. Sarkar, Parallel Solution of Integral Equation Based EM Problems in the Frequency Domain, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2009, ISBN:9780470405451.

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