June 11th 2003

QuickWave Seminar and Users’ Meeting

Venue and time:
Chalmers University, Kemiv. 9, MC2 building, room A 820
February 27th, 2003, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

Organiser:
CHACH

Speakers:
prof. Wojciech Gwarek and dr Malgorzata Celuch
Warsaw University of Technology and QWED company, Poland

Motivation:
1. A new version 2.2 of QuickWave software is being launched in February 2003. Its major features will be discussed at the Seminar. The focus will be on new models of electromagnetic phenomena that increase the accuracy of FDTD analysis and on new operating regimes that extend the scope of software applications to microwave engineering problems.

2. In 2002, five years passed since the first QuickWave-3D licences had been installed in the Gothenburg area. From that perspective, QWED will present some general comments and recommendations for effective software use in research and industrial design.

Tentative agenda:

1. Welcome address and introduction (9:00-9:15)

2. New models and regimes of QW-Simulator (9.15 – 10.00)
- multiconductor TEM transmission lines
- user-defined pulses
- PML versus superabsorbing boundaries
- improved field singularity models
- selected applications of Power & Q window
- remarks on antenna postprocessing with multiple sources and symmetry planes
- remarks on S-parameters with multiple sources and evanescent modes
- new breakpoint mechanisms and tasker files generation
- saving fields over subvolumes
- new QT – openGL display functionalities

3. Building structures in QW-Editor: recommendations and hints (10:15 – 11:00)
- elements and objects: when do we use them
- Boolean operations: when do we need them
- biphased objects: concept and applications
- draft and final phase: can we work in final only?
- mesh considerations: mesh snapping properties of elements / objects, explicit mesh snapping planes, what is a red dot
- structure and applications of UDO libraries
- recommendations for creating new UDO scripts

4. Importing CAD files (11:00 – 11:30)
- a new SAT Filter and its options
- advantages and limitations of SAT import
- VF Modeller
- import of DXF files

5. Discussion (11:30 – 12:00)