MEFiSTo-2D Comments
| Name: | Ryan Tam |
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| email: | tamrw@mcmail.mcmaster.ca |
| Institution: | Computational Electromagnetics Group, ECE Dept., McMaster University |
| HomePage: | http://www.mcmaster.ca/ |
| Comments: | I like the animation of the wave propagation on Mefisto-2D. The experiments and tutorials can really show the students how a wave propagates in a transmission line. We can also construct our own microwave structures. That is excellent! |
| Name: | Dr. Giampaoli Tardioli |
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| email: | tardioli@sr.hp.com |
| Institution: | Microwave Instruments Division, Hewlett-Packard Sonoma County |
| HomePage: | http://www.hp.com/ |
| Comments: | I think MEFiSTo-2D is an excellent tool for educational purposes. I wish I had it when I was trying to “digest” plane wave propagation, diffraction and other concepts at the Electromagnetics 100 level. |
| Name: | Professor Jan Vrba |
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| email: | vrba@feld.cvut.cz |
| Institution: | Czech Technical University in Prague |
| HomePage: | http://dellsp2.vc.cvut.cz/ascii/fee/k317/index.html |
| Comments: | My first impressions with MEFiSTo are great. It is really a perfect tool to support the education process. Thank you again for the possibility to work with it. |
| Name: | Dr. Zhizhang Chen |
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| email: | z.chen@dal.ca |
| Institution: | Dalhousie University |
| HomePage: | http://is.dal.ca/~emgroup/ |
| Comments: | In addition to the time-domain animation feature most time-domain numerical tools have, the MEFiSTo-2D electromagnetic simulator presents a real-time Fourier transform which is quite special and helpful for students to understand transient effects on the formations of physical events occuring in device and and circuit components. I have used the example of the oscillator provided by MEFiSTo-2D to illustrate the formation of an oscillation process in a course of Communication Electronics. The responses from students are excellent. Students can see not only the transient response of the oscillating signal but also the spectrum as it varies with time. MEFiSTo-2D does provide an user-friendly professional tool for electromagnetic, RF and microwave education. I hope that more educators and engineers can try it out and send back comments. I believe that the future versions of the package will provide more unique features. |
| Name: | Dr. Jose Represa |
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| email: | pepe@rococo.ele.cie.uva.es |
| Institution: | University of Valladolid |
| HomePage: | http://rococo.ele.cie.uva.es/ |
| Comments: | I find that your 2D time domain simulator is very useful for teaching basic electromagnetics to undergraduate students. One of the most amazing facts I have found among my students is the incapacity to imagine or visualize, electromagnetic phenomena in the time domain. I believe that a misunderstanding of formulation in the frequency domain (probably coming from AC circuit theory) and its mathematical representation leads our students to the implicit thinking of propagation as a static phenomenon (regarding only the space dependence of fields). With the help of a time domain simulator, they can see simple facts such as the formation of standing waves, reflection and refraction, scattering, diffraction, etc. I have, for example, prepared a virtual experiment showing the total reflection of a wave and the formation of the surface wave at the interface between two different dielectrics. |
| Name: | Dr. Wolfgang Menzel |
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| email: | menzel@mwt.e-technik.uni-ulm.de |
| Institution: | University of Ulm |
| HomePage: | http://mwt.e-technik.uni-ulm.de/ |
| Comments: | I was using 2D-TLM under DOS for years demonstrating wave propagation and basic performance of discontinuities and components to my students. 2D-TLM has proven as a unique tool for visualizing electromagnetics and for giving the students a comprehensive view on a number of effects they otherwise could only guess from some abstract mathematic equations. The new MEFiSTo-2D software now gives much more flexibility and a much easier use on today's PCs. |
| Name: | Dr. Terry Enegren |
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| email: | tenegren@heatwave.com |
| Institution: | HeatWave Drying Systems Ltd. |
| HomePage: | http://www.heatwave.com/ |
| Comments: | I am often asked by customers of our company to measure the dielectric properties of some unusual materials. MEFiSTo-2D allows me to quickly simulate a measurement scenario and to predict the range of parameters I can expect. MEFiSTo-2D is truly an Electromagnetic Laboratory on a PC. |
| Name: | Dr. Lloyd Riggs |
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| email: | riggs@eng.auburn.edu |
| Institution: | Auburn University |
| HomePage: | http://www.eng.auburn.edu/ |
| Comments: | I must say that you at Faustus Scientific Corporation have really developed a superb product. The Windows environment and graphical input and output features make the program extremely user friendly. I can't wait to use the program in my undergraduate electromagnetic classes. |
