DescriptionofElectrostaticModules.pdf

Description of electrostatic modules 1 Description of Electrostatic Simulation Modules Contents Section 1.1 Library of electrostatic modules General. Major features. Table of MATLAB modules Section 1.2 Technical features MoM solver. Triangular meshes for basic conducting and dielectric objects. Surface human body meshes. Accuracy and adaptive mesh refinement References Section 1.3 Module interface snapshots Section 1.4 Surface human body meshes Section 1. 2 Technical features 2 Section 1.1 Library of electrostatic modules 1.1.1. General The present library of fourteen computational MATLAB modules was compiled during 2004- 2012. It is devoted to electrostatic problems and is intended for education and basic research purposes. The education applications imply electrical and biomedical engineering and physics including, but not limited to, the following undergraduate and introductory graduate classes: - Physics, specifically Electrostatics - Physical Principles of the Electrical Engineering - Electromagnetics - Introduction to Semiconductor Devices - Computational Methods of Electromagnetics - Bioelectromagnetics - Electric Safety and Power Management The following topics are covered: i. Capacitance of arbitrary 3D conductor/dielectric spatial configurations involving simple objects – a circle, plate, sphere, cylinder, and a brick; ii. Self-capacitance, capacitance of two arbitrary conductors, capacitance of three arbitrary conductors; iii. Conductors and dielectrics in an external DC electric field; iv. Conducting human body subject to a DC electric field or to an applied DC voltage, self-capacitance of a human body; v. Conducting human body in the presence of other charged conductors; vi. Electrostatics of a semiconductor pn-j