Soft Computing in Electromagnetics: Methods and Applications - Hardcover

Soft computing techniques are emerging as an important tool in solving design, performance and optimisation problems in electromagnetics. Soft Computing in Electromagnetics offers detailed discussion on the application of soft computing concepts in the field of metamaterial antennas, radar absorbers, transmission line characterisation and optimised radar absorbing material (RAM) and introduces implementation of soft computing tools in a relatively new area of metamaterials. The soft computing methods are used to optimise fault detection, electromagnetic propagation and path loss detection. The development of two CAD packages for design of metamaterial split ring resonators (SRR) and path-loss prediction is discussed. The concepts are explained with the help of algorithms and the corresponding software codes. Numerical examples and MATLAB codes are provided throughout the text to facilitate understanding.

Balamati Choudhury has been a scientist at the Centre for Electromagnetics at the CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, since January 2008. She obtained her PhD in Microwave Engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Rourkela, Orissa. From 2006 to 2008, she worked as a Senior Lecturer at the National Institute of Science and Technology, Orissa. Her areas of interest include soft computing techniques in electromagnetic design and optimisation, computational electromagnetics for aerospace applications and metamaterial design applications and RF and microwaves. She was the recipient of the 2013–2014 CSIR-NAL Young Scientist Award for her contribution in the area of computational electromagnetics for aerospace applications. She has published a number of articles in national and international journals.