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Contents 1 About openEMS 2 Download & Installation 3 Documentation 4 License & Reference 5 Contact & Forum

About openEMS

• openEMS is a free and open-source electromagnetic field solver using the FDTD method
• fully 3D Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates graded mesh
• Matlab (or Octave) is used as an easy and flexible scripting interface
• Multi-threading, SIMD (SSE) and MPI support for high speed FDTD

For a more extensive list of features have a look at the openEMS features

Download & Installation

• Windows & Linux: Use the installation guide to download & install openEMS.

Documentation

• Have a look at the Matlab/Octave Tutorials
• The online manual gives an overview of the functions available to openEMS.
• Have a look at the Frequently Asked Questions

openEMS:

• openEMS in the International Journal of Numerical Modelling doi or pdf
• List of publications using openEMS: Publications

EC-FDTD:

• JCTN_2008_Rennings_B.pdf
• Springer_Chap_2008_Rennings.pdf
• 7-CoFT-V_EC-FDTD_more-insight.pdf (german)

License & Reference

• openEMS is licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or later
• CSXCAD is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3 or later

• We kindly ask you to reference openEMS in any publication that you were using openEMS for.
• Have a look at the list of publications referencing openEMS: List of publications.

Contact & Forum

For questions, problems, bug-reports, support, ideas etc. regarding openEMS have a look at the openEMS-Forum, write an email or contact me on Google+.

For general questions regarding numerical simulations, electromagnetic problems etc. you may have a look at the Laboratory for General and Theoretical Electrical Engineering (ATE) website.