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Advanced Modal Analysis (Wiley Series in Counseling and Human Development)

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Very good!! finally a book on the state-of-the-art in numerical techniques for passive waveguide components. A lot of original and very efficent numerical techniques are described in detail to compute the modal admittance matrix of both common and arbitrarely shaped waveguide junctions. I found simply fantastic the BI-RME method and the integral equation technique, but I'm not so crazy to try to implement them!! However I think It's very important and instructive to know about these advanced techniques.

To be coherent all over the text, the authors deliberately make an intensive use of the concept of multimodal admittance matrix (GAM), although in some cases working directly with the generalized scattering matrix (GSM) is more simple and efficient.

Even though examples of the developed software are available within the book, only sometimes the authors give enough information about the implementation, so the book may be very difficult for the beginner. Hence I think that a good experience in numerical techniques for electromagnetism is strongly required to really appreciate this work.

Excelent book. The BI-RME method is simply fantastic... Absolute state-of-the-art stuff presented in a clear way -provided you have a background in electromagnetism and numerical techniques.