Chapter 1.
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1. Motivation (1)
2. HOW POEMS WORKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1. Program Organization (6); 2.2. The Front-End Script:
poems.cmd (6); 2.3. The FDTD Engine: FIDO/TEMPEST (7); 2.4. The
Postprocessor: EMPOST (7); 2.5. The Visualization System: VIS5D
(8); 2.6. Cluster Control (8)
3. USING POEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.1. Command Reference (10); 3.2. The Computational Domain
(31); 3.3. OBJECTS (32); 3.4. MATERIALS (33); 3.5. SOURCES (33);
3.6. Optimization (37); 3.7. Predefined Constants (41);
3.8. Predefined Mathematical Functions (43); 3.9. Analytical Pupil
Functions (48); 3.10. Material Parameter Functions (48); A. TEMPEST
and General FDTD Information (49)
Appendix A.: V-Antenna Optimization Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
A.1. POEMS INPUT: DIPOLE2I.PAR (52); A.2. tempest Input File:
DIPOLE2I.PAR.IN (62); A.3. Postprocessor orders:
DIPOLE2I.ORDERS (65); A.4. Run Results: DIPOLE2I.SIMPLEX
(75)
Appendix B.: Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
B.1. FDTD and TEMPEST (81); B.2. REXX (83); B.3. X Window System
Configuration (83); B.4. Release Notes (84)
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