Facilities

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EMerge (Full-wave FEM solver in Python)

I make use of my autonomously developed full-wave FEM solver EMerge to tackle full wave passive microwave simulations. The application is able to simulation almost every type of problem that commercial EM solvers are typically used to tackle. A comparison of EMerge against measurements and commercial solvers can be found here.

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EMerge also contains an integrated 1-way thermal coupling solver, which can be extended to a 2-way coupling multi-physics solver if needed.

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Mac Studio M3 Ultra - 28 core (256 GB)

To run all full wave models I make use of the MacStudio M3 Ultra with 28 cores and 256GB of RAM memory. To solve full wave problems, I use the sparse direct solver in the Apple Accelerate framework which implements the METIS Nested Disection algorithm for fill-in reduction. 

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The Accelerate sparse direct solver can utilize the full range of the 20 performance cores to tackle any given LU decomposition, or even distribute 1 or more cores for parallel problems.

The 256GB allows me to solve EM problems up to 600K to 2.5 million tetrahedra, depending on the geometry and boundary conditions.

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LibreVNA 2 ports full VNA 100kHz - 6GHz

For basic RF measurements I use the LibreVNA V2. This is not a standardized calibrated instrument, and therefore not suitable for high precision RF measurements. Depending on the scope of the project, more advanced hardware can be purchased or rented to perform such operations.