AN ASSESSMENT OF MININEC AND ITS USE IN THE TEACHING OF ANTENNA THEORY

Abstract

MININEC is a compact, Method of Moments code, written specifically for the personal computer which has evolved considerably in the last decade. This paper presents an assessment of the program and discusses its use in the teaching of antenna theory to undergraduates. The results of a number of validation exercises on the code are included and the simulation of loaded wire antennas, using MININEC, is discussed. [Vol. 8, No. 1 (1993), Special Issue on Computer Applications in Electromagnetics Education, pp 7-28]