Coupled electromagnetic-thermodynamic simulations of microwave heating problems using the FDTD algorithm |
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| Authors: | Pawe? Kopyt Ma?gorzata Celuch |
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| Affiliation: | Institute of Radioelectronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland. P.Kopyt@elka.pw.edu.pl |
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| Abstract: | A practical implementation of a hybrid simulation system capable of modeling coupled electromagnetic-thermodynamic problems typical in microwave heating is described. The paper presents two approaches to modeling such problems. Both are based on an FDTD-based commercial electromagnetic solver coupled to an external thermodynamic analysis tool required for calculations of heat diffusion. The first approach utilizes a simple FDTD-based thermal solver while in the second it is replaced by a universal commercial CFD solver. The accuracy of the two modeling systems is verified against the original experimental data as well as the measurement results available in literature. |
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