Book description
This book is intended to serve as a textbook for an entry level
graduate course on electromagnetics (first seven chapters) and for an
advanced level graduate course on computational electromagnetics (last
five chapters). Whereas there are several textbooks available for the
graduate electromagnetics course, no textbook is available for the
advanced course on computational electromagnetics. This book is intended
to fill this void and present electromagnetic theory in a systematic
manner so that students can advance from the first course to the second
without much difficulty. Even though the first part of the book covers
the standard basic electromagnetic theory, the coverage is different
from that in existing textbooks. This is mainly the result of the
undergraduate curriculum reform that occurred during the past two
decades. Many universities reduced the number of required courses in
order to give students more freedom to design their own portfolio. As a
result, only one electromagnetics course is required for undergraduate
students in most electrical engineering departments in the country. New
graduate students come to take the graduate electromagnetics course with
a significant difference in their knowledge of basic electromagnetic
theory. To meet the challenge to benefit all students of backgrounds,
this book covers both fundamental theories, such as vector analysis,
Maxwell's equations and boundary conditions, and transmission line
theory, and advanced topics, such as wave transformation, addition
theorems, and scattering by a layered sphere.
Jian-ming Jin
, PhD, is Y. T. Lo Chair Professor in Electrical and Computer
Engineering and Director of the Electromagnetics Laboratory and Center
for Computational Electromagnetics at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. He authored The Finite Element Method in Electromagnetics
(Wiley) and Electromagnetic Analysis and Design in Magnetic
Resonance Imaging
; coauthored Computation of Special Functions
(Wiley) and Finite Element Analysis of Antennas and Arrays
(Wiley); and coedited Fast and Efficient Algorithms in Computational Electromagnetics
. A Fellow of IEEE, he is listed by ISI as among the world's most cited
authors.
