Contributions to engineering electromagnetics

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The dissertation presents an overview of the publications of the candidate, andhis research group, on engineering electromagnetics - in particular computational electromagnetics (CEM) - which have advanced the field in a numberof aspects. They have also impacted materially on local and now international industry. Applications discussed focus initially on primarily defence work,moving through a period of development of advanced CEM methods (many subsequently incorporated in commercial software) to his appointment to theSquare Kilometre Array (SKA) South African Research Chair in Engineering Electromagnetics in 2011, in support of South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescopeand SKA program. The golden thread of his work has been modelling full-wave electromagnetic fields in increasingly complex environments. This has now expanded to include work on applying these methods to antenna design in the context of radio astronomy. His recent work also addresses other topics in applied engineering electromagnetics, including calibration and imaging for radio astronomy (some of which leverages CEM simulations) as well as antenna metrology and electromagnetic wave propagation modelling.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University