Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy (JMPEE)
TITLE	Numerical Modeling of Microwave Heating Systems [PDF]
AUTHORS	P. H. Harms, Y. Chen, R. Mittra and Y. Shimony 1996 31 2 114-121
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Abstract Microwave heating plays a significant role in the processing of materials in industry, but the applicator design is generally done without numerical methods or simulations because of the difficulty of the design problem. Much research has shown that the finite difference time domain method can model complex geometries and analyze many types of electromagnetic problems. This paper will employ this approach to study three major types of microwave heating applicators and thereby demonstrate the capabilities of this technique to analyze a variety of microwave heating applicators. Key Words: Microwave heating, Resonant cavity applicator, Waveguide applicator, Radio frequency parallel plate applicator, Computational electromagnetics, Finite-difference time-domain method.