Introduction to the Finite Element Method in Electromagnetics

Anastasis C. Polycarpou received the B.S. (with summa cum laude), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in 1992, 1994, and 1998, respectively. During his graduate studies, he was with the Telecommunications Research Center (TRC) of ASU where he worked on various research projects sponsored by government organizations and private companies such as the US Navy, US Army, Boeing, Sikorsky, and a few more. In the summer of 1998, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of ASU as an Associate Research Faculty where he performed research on a variety of subjects in the broad area of electromagnetics. While being at ASU, he worked on the development and enhancement of numerical methods, in particular the Finite Element Method (FEM) and the Method of Moments (MoM), for the analysis of complex electromagnetic problems such as microwave circuits, interconnects and electronic packaging, cavity-backed slot antennas in the presence of magnetized ferrites, and helicopter electromagnetics. He wrote a multipurpose three[1]dimensional finite element code using edge elements to solve geometrically complex scattering and radiation problems. The code utilizes advanced iterative techniques in linear algebra for the solution of extremely large indefinite matrix systems. Dr. Polycarpou has published more than 40 journals and conference proceedings and two chapters in books. He is currently an Associate Professor at Intercollege in Cyprus. His research areas of interest include numerical methods in electromagnetics and specifically the Finite Element Method and the Method of Moments, antenna analysis and design, electromagnetic theory, and ferrite materials.

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