1.4 QuickWave

QuickWave is a general-purpose electromagnetic simulator based on the conformal FDTD method and supplemented with a range of unique models for curved boundaries, media interfaces, modal excitation, and parameter extraction. It has a well- established position on the world's market due to approaching specific, challenging problems (often bound to QWED's specialists participation in the customer's projects as consultants). That kind of approach causes that QuickWave has a very broad variety of information which can be extracted from the simulations in a form of different pre-processings, co-processings and post-processings.

Functionality:

Full 3D EM solver.
Ultra-fast Vector 2D (V2D) solver for axisymmetrical structures (BOR - Body of Revolution) as large as 2100 wavelengths, including antennas, circular waveguides discontinuities, coaxial lines and resonators.
The specific features of QuickWave-3D include the possibility of simulating microwave heating problems. The software has been prepared to work in sophisticated regimes, modelling the movement of the heated load(s) even along complicated trajectories, etc. Transfer of the heat generated by electromagnetic fields can be modelled with internal Heat Transfer Module or by coupling QuickWave-3D simulations to external computational fluid dynamics packages.
QuickWave is very flexible in so called co-processings. The user can open arbitrary number of windows for display of field components, dissipated power, Poynting vector etc. (in various graphical display systems and at any simulation stage). The decisions about the number and type of the windows showing values deliverable from the instantaneous filed components do not need to be taken prior to launching the simulation. The co-processings data are available (for viewing, storing, etc.) at any time during the simulation.
Powerful Freeze option enabling saving the state of the simulation in the purpose to restore this state or continue the calculations in the future.
Breakpoints and tasker mechanism of executing user defined sequence of commands, allowing performing the defined operations, e.g. freezing simulation, saving simulation results, automatically.
Batch operation for both QW-Editor and QW-Simulator.
QW-Modeller - free general purpose parametric 3D CAD modeller for creating geometry, assigning the materials, adding ports, boundary conditions, setting mesh, excitation parameters, postprocessings, etc.
QuickWave plug-in for popular CAD environment, Autodesk® Inventor® Software. Graphical definition of 3D/V2D structures in CAD environment, mesh generation, and specification of simulation parameters.

Speed:

Speed of computing has been in the focus of QuickWave software developers since its early days. We are putting a lot of effort to keep pace with hardware development. Thus we have a variety of options for optimum speed of computing on various multiprocessor/multicore, GPU and MultiGPU configurations.
Optimal cell indexing allowing for very fast FDTD calculations.
Slow down option enabling slowing down the simulation; useful in case when the user wants to watch the transient of the fields and due to the simulation speed the fields are moving "too fast".