Higher-Order Techniques in Computational Electromagnetics [Book Review].

This book caters to the needs of serious researchers, programmers, and scientists in the field of computational electromagnetics (CEM). The authors are both top-notch experts on this subject. With almost 400 pages of encyclopedic information, this is a full-size book containing a lot of rigorous and useful information. It is a good reference book and will be kept on a conveniently accessible shelf of every active CEM researcher?s bookcase. The title of the book alludes to CEM, but the information contained in the book may be useful in many other computational disciplines. Graglia and Peterson extensively worked on and published the core matter of this book for at least two decades; there is no question that they are the authoritative voices in this field, the book provides a comprehensive summary of the research performed by them. Because the authors have been drawing their applications from the CEM field, they titled the book accordingly. Nevertheless, the high-order techniques discussed spill over to other disciplines as well. The book contains several tables on interpolatory vector bases and hierarchical bases in an effort to present comprehensive and readily available systematized information to CEM programmers for rapid implementation of the higher-order basis functions described. The intended audience of this book is primarily CEM researchers and programmers and focuses on the high-level concepts pertaining to the inner workings of numerical solutions of integral and differential equations. As such, it is not an introductory text but may be used as a graduate-level textbook in specialized CEM courses concentrating on the higher-order discretizations of integral and/or differential equations. This text is particularly useful to those researchers who work with detailed mathematical formulations, numerical analysis, and actual coding. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]