Optimization of experimental computational electromagnetics code

The partial element equivalent circuit method is a numerical algorithm for simulating electromagnetic (EM) properties. The method is based on a transformation from the electromagnetic domain to equivalent circuits. Recent interest in the method has sprung due to its mixed EM/circuit formulations and the increasing difficulties in the industry to handle electromagnetic effects at ever increasing frequencies with only the "rule of thumb" approach. The department of Embedded Internet Systems Laboratory (EISLAB) at Luleå University of Technology has an ongoing project related to development of the PEEC method. Several prototype computer programs had been developed in collaboration with other universities and the industry, though suffering from poor programming. This thesis discusses the development of a new PEEC solving code, using object oriented principles and open source tools to create the PEEC model and solve the resulting circuit equations, emphasizing on optimization with regards to time and memory consumption. The new code has been verified to work against several analytical results and should be considerably faster than the previous code while consuming less memory.Validerat; 20101217 (root