Università di Catania
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica e Informatica (DIEEI)

Electrical Sciences Group
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Research activity

The research activity of the Electrical Engineering Group is mainly devoted to the theoretical and experimental study of numerical methods for the computation of electromagnetic fields, especially the Finite Element Method (FEM). In this context the main tool of the Group is ELFIN, a large FEM code (of more than 500 subroutines, for a total of 60.000 Fortran statements) developed by the members of the Group for electromagnetic CAD research. By means of this code electromagnetic problems such as electrostatic, magnetostatic, eddy current, skin effect and wave propagation ones can be dealt with both in 2D and 3D. The main research topics are the following:
  1. electrostatic field computation in open boundaries;
  2. solution of unbounded skin effect and eddy current problems;
  3. non-linear transient magnetic field computation;
  4. wave scattering and radiation problems;
  5. coupled electro-thermal problems;
  6. automatic mesh generation by means of artificial neural networks
  7. non standard FE-BE method
  8. solution of hybrid algebraic systems
  9. single and multi-objective stochastic optimization
    1. "Degree Of Approximation" (DOA) unary quality indicator: source code page.
    2. "Parallel Self-Adaptive Low-High Evaluation Evolutionary-Algorithm" (PSALHE-EA): go to the source code page