An Efficient Technique to Assess the Convergence of the Multimode Equivalent Network for Waveguide Devices

[EN] Numerical methods are widely used to analyze and design microwave components for communication applications.In the implementation of any numerical technique, however, there are always a set of parameters that must be properly adjusted in order to obtain, at the same time, computational efficien...

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Autores: Gomez Molina, Celia, Quesada Pereira, Fernando, Alvarez Melcon, Alejandro, Guglielmi, Marco, Boria Esbert, Vicente Enrique|||0000-0001-7150-9785
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/141938
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/141938
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Convergence of numerical methods
Equivalent circuits
Integral equations
Microwave devices
Communication applications
Convergence parameters
Microwave components
Multimode equivalent network formulation
Numerical methods
Numerical technique
Waveguide devices
Convergence
Kernel
Method of moments
Microwave theory and techniques
Waveguide junctions
Method of moments (MoM)
Multimode equivalent networks
Waveguide filters
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Sumario:[EN] Numerical methods are widely used to analyze and design microwave components for communication applications.In the implementation of any numerical technique, however, there are always a set of parameters that must be properly adjusted in order to obtain, at the same time, computational efficiency and numerical accuracy of the results. In this context, therefore, we focus in this paper on the multimode equivalent network formulation for waveguide devices, and we propose a more intuitive and efficient strategy for choosing these parameters. Following our approach, setting only one global numerical variable is sufficient to adjust automatically the specific convergence parameters of each discontinuity to give a specific level of numerical accuracy of the results. As a consequence, the computational efficiency is significantly increased. In addition, the user experience is significantly improved since our approach eliminates all lengthy convergence tests previously needed to assure good numerical accuracy. In addition to theory, we discuss in this paper a number of numerical results that clearly demonstrate how the new strategy is very effective, thereby fully validating the theoretical formulation.