Dan Browne Wins Author Award
Wraclaw, called The Meeting Place by Polish people, is where the old welcomes the new, including Dan's app.
Congratulations to Dan Browne! No, not that author, OUR Dan - with an ‘e’- who won the Student Author Award for the best paper by a young researcher at the Eighth International Conference on Computation in Electromagnetics (CEM2011).
His paper, A mobile virtual electromagnetics laboratory for iPhone, detailed how his app, the Loughborough Wave Lab was created based on the Transmission Line Matrix modelling method (TLM). The abstract explains:
"Modern mobile devices have now advanced to a point where they can execute computationally-intensive mathematical problems. The Transmission Line Matrix Modelling method (TLM) is a time-domain method allowing the computation of two and three dimensional electromagnetic fields and structures. TLM is able to model complex scenarios whilst utilising a computationally simple method to model structures in discrete spatial units. This paper presents an iPhone Application (App) containing a TLM solver. The simulation output is presented on the screen as the simulation progresses. The performance of the iPhone is sufficient to visualise full-field simulations and to provide an interactive interface for the user."
In addition to a the personal cheque from COMPEL (Emerald), Dan received a 1 year free licence of the QuickWave software package from QWED.
Dan, who is supervised by Dr Simon Pomeroy and Dr James Flint, said: “This was my first conference so I was surprised and truly delighted to win!”
July 2011