Area of Applications
Applications
QuickWave EM Software has a very broad variety of information which can be extracted from the simulations in a form of different pre-processings, co-processings and post-processings what creates a possibility to use it in a very wide area of applications. QuickWave is general purpose electromagnetic software enabling calculations of typical problems as S-Parameters extraction, radiation and scattering problems, etc. The specific features of QuickWave include possibility of simulation of various frequency dependent and anisotropic materials, in scenarios including different boundary conditions as periodic bc or electric/magnetic symmetries. Special attention has been paid to assuring effective analysis of microwave heating problems. The software has been prepared to work in sophisticated regimes, modelling even complicated trajectories of movement of the heated load. Transfer of the heat generated by electromagnetic fields can be modelled with internal Heat Transfer Module or by coupling QuickWave simulations to external computational fluid dynamics packages.
Next to full 3D problems, QuickWave enables the analysis of Bodies of Revolution (axisymmetrical structures), using an ultra-fast 2D Bessel and FDTD hybrid solver (QuickWave Vector 2D). QuickWave BOR (V2D) is the basic software in designing of double-reflector Cassegrain antennas used in telescopes as well as communication antennas, feeders with axial symmetry or sophisticated coaxial cables.
Area of Applications
S-Parameters Extraction
- S-Parameters extraction, including Sk1 parameters for reciprocal circuits and full S-matrix calculations, S-Parameters extraction below cutoff frequency, frequency dependent wave impedance, propagation constant, standing wave ratio and group delay, power balance calculations, S-Parameters extraction for virtually shifted reference (calculation) plane, etc.
Radiation and Scattering Problems
- Radiation and scattering patterns calculations, in a form of 2D and 3D characteristics, including radiation parameters extraction, e.g. antenna gain, power radiated, radiation efficiency, axial ratio, etc., extraction of linear and circular polarisation components, calculation of radiation and scattering patterns in an arbitrary isotropic medium, etc.
Microwave Heating
- Microwave heating analysis, including loads rotation and movement along user defined trajectory, source frequency tuning to meet application specific requirements (e.g. maximising matching in microwave power applications with solid state power sources), source parameters switching, heat transfer analysis, and material parameters modification as a function of dissipated power.
Bodies of Revolution
- Ultra-fast vector 2D Bessel and FDTD hybrid solver (V2D BOR) designated for analysis of axisymmetrical Bodies of Revolution (BOR) structures.
Materials
- Analysis of wide variety materials, including isotropic and anisotropic dielectrics, single-, dual- and triple-pole dispersive materials including cold plasma, dispersive anisotropic dielectric given by Debye dispersion model, dispersive dielectric with thrid-order nonlinear polarisation, metamaterials (negative index materials, left-handed materials), temperature dependent materials (in Basic Heating Module), lossy metals (wideband modelling of skin effect), etc.
Waveguides
- Rectangular and circular waveguide analysis, including inhomogeneous waveguides, transitions, bends, junctions, couplers, and waveguide resonators and filters.
Planar Structures
- Planar structures analysis, enabling application of infinitely thin metal layers (metal layers of zero thickness), including modelling of planar antennas, filters, couplers, etc.
Resonators
- Analysis of resonant structures, including waveguide resonators, dielectric resonators.
Filters
- Analysis of planar and waveguide filters, including comb-line filters and dielectric resonator filters modelling also using QProny module for high Q structures.
Periodic Structures
- Analysis of infinite periodic structures using periodic boundary conditions (PBC), including analysis of eigenvalue problems, reflection characteristics of frequency selective surfaces (FSS), scatterometry of periodic structures, etc.
Free Space Incident Wave
- Illumination with a free space incident wave, by a plane wave and 2D and 3D Gaussian beams, enabled also within dielectric and magnetic media and for periodic circuits.
Frequency Domain Monitoring
- Illumination with a free space incident wave, by a plane wave and 2D and 3D Gaussian beams, enabled also within dielectric and magnetic media and for periodic circuits.
Photonic Crystals
- Analysis of photonic crystals devices, including photonic crystal waveguide, waveguide bend, lens, etc.
High Q Structures
- Analysis of high quality factor structures with specialised QProny module, enhancing the computation speed.
Optimisation
- Multiobjective optimisation with QW-OptimiserPlus module.
Time Domain Reflectometry and Field Integration Along Contours
- TDR enabled by time domain signal displays.
- Currents and voltages extraction by integrating H-fields along a virtual loop surrounding a conductor and E-fields along a virtual line connecting two conductors.