Modelling the propagation of electromagnetic waves across complex metamaterials in closed structures

• Published in: Journal of computational and applied mathematics Vol. 352; pp. 40 - 49
• Main Authors: Balbastre, J.V., Nuño, L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 15.05.2019
• Subjects: Bi-anisotropic metamaterials; Finite Element Method; Microwave engineering; Weighted residuals method; Weighted residuals method; Bi-anisotropic metamaterials; Finite Element Method; Microwave engineering
• ISSN: 0377-0427; 1879-1778
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2018.11.004

Metamaterials are currently one of the most popular fields in microwave technology because their particular electromagnetic properties lead to a plenty of very relevant applications, both military and civilian. Additionally, the analysis and design of microwave components based on this kind of materials is one of the more challenging problems found by the applied electromagnetism community due to the complexity introduced in the mathematical formulation by their constitutive relationships. The most general case of metamaterial is the bi-anisotropic one, where both the electric field and the electric induction simultaneously depend on the magnetic field and the magnetic induction. In this paper, we present a new and powerful Finite Element Method scheme valid for the analysis of the most general waveguides, filled with lossy bi-anisotropic linear materials. Edge elements have been used in order to prevent the appearance of spurious solutions and the final eigensystems are very sparse, thus allowing a great memory and computing time saving.