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Interesting piece of software.

Seems similar (though much more advanced), to a piece of DOS software I remember floating around various "overunity" forums I used to visit years ago (I have a secret fascination with such efforts; I know they can't succeed, but it is interesting to see the lengths and effort people go for to try), though I don't recall its name.

This software would probably be very useful for designing motors and generators, and for the DIY crowd in those areas.




Motors usually use static field solvers; i.e. E and H field are independent. This uses FTDT which is more for propagating waves in media.


So signal processing?


Yes, though these days the term 'signal processing' is usually only used for operations on the signal in digital form, ie after sampling. Since this works for the propagation of the signal in analog form, it is more useful for doing calculations about propagation of signals in waveguides or in a TWT or something.


I'm not sure it's "signal processing" as much as it is the actual things that people would call "signals" in the first place.


I used FEMM for motors, but it works for just about any magnetic, electric or heat field static analisys.

http://www.femm.info


When I was in grad school, I had quite a few colleagues using FEMM for various electromagnetic clutch designs, looks like it worked well.


Did you go to Sherbrooke?


Hah, yes, actually!




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