EIGER: Electromagnetic Interactions GEneRalized Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title EIGER: Electromagnetic Interactions GEneRalized

Creator

  • Author: Sharpe, R. M.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Grant, J. B.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Champagne, N. J.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Financial Management and Controller.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: USDOE Office of Financial Management and Controller, Washington, DC (United States)

Publisher

  • Name: Sandia National Laboratories
    Place of Publication: Albuquerque, New Mexico
    Additional Info: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
  • Name: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Place of Publication: California
    Additional Info: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)

Date

  • Creation: 1997-03-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: EIGER (Electromagnetic Interactions GEneRalized), a single integrated software tool set, brings together a variety of spectral domain analysis methods. These include moment method solutions of integral equation formulations and finite elements solutions of partial differential equations. New software engineering methods, specifically, object oriented design, are being used to implement abstractions of key components of spectral analysis methods so that the tools can be easily modified and extended to treat new classes of problems. The key components of the numerical analysis tool, and their roles, are: elements - to describe the geometry, basis (expansion) functions - to interpolate the unknowns (e.g., fields) locally, and operators - to express the underlying physics formulations used to propagate the energy or enforce fundamental principals. The development of EMPACK provided the fundamental impetus for these abstractions which are discussed more fully in subsequent sections. This design approach is in contrast to standard design procedures where entire codes are developed around a particular element type with a specific basis function for a single operator. Although such tools can be effectively used to model large classes of problems, it is often very difficult, if not intractable, to extend the tools beyond their initial design. Overcoming this limitation is one of the most compelling goals of this project. We have successfully overcome roadblocks encountered in extension of past development efforts, such as the extension of Patch to treat wires and wire-surface junctions in the presence of non-homogeneous media. Moreover, the application base for EIGER grows as we cast a variety of Green`s functions into a form compatible with the numerical procedures in EIGER.
  • Physical Description: 4 p.

Subject

  • Keyword: Green Function
  • Keyword: Integral Equations
  • Keyword: Electromagnetic Fields
  • STI Subject Categories: 99 Mathematics, Computers, Information Science, Management, Law, Miscellaneous
  • Keyword: Partial Differential Equations
  • Keyword: Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Keyword: E Codes
  • Keyword: Mathematical Operators
  • STI Subject Categories: 66 Physics

Source

  • Conference: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/LEOS topical meetings on vertical cavity lasers, Montreal (Canada), 11-18 Aug 1997

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Other: DE97003833
  • Report No.: SAND--97-0576C
  • Report No.: CONF-970827--2
  • Grant Number: AC04-94AL85000;W-7405-ENG-48
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 501495
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc694450

Note

  • Display Note: OSTI as DE97003833
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