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== EM.Ferma Features at a Glance ==
=== Structure Definition ===
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Metal (PEC) solids and surfaces in free space (Electrostatics)</li>
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Dielectric objects in free space (Electrostatics)</li>
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=== Sources ===
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Voltage sources for maintaining equi-potential metal objects</li>
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Uniform volume charges</li>
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Wire current sources</li>
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=== Mesh generation ===
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Fixed-size brick cells</li>
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=== 3D Electrostatic Simulation ===
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Finite difference solution of Laplace and Poisson equations with Dirichlet and Neumann domain boundary conditions </li>
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3D domain solution as well as 2D solution of a longitudinally infinite version of the structure defined on a 2D plane </li>
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Calculation of electric potential and field</li>
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Calculation of electric flux over user defined flux boxes and capacitance</li>
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Parametric sweep with variable object properties or source parameters</li>
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=== 3D Magnetostatic Simulation ===
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Calculation of magnetic fields due to wire current sources</li>
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Discretization of arbitrary curves into polylines/polygons</li>
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Calculation of magnetic flux over user defined flux surfaces and inductance</li>
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Parametric sweep with variable object properties or source parameters</li>
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=== 2D Quasi-Static Simulation ===
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2D Finite difference solution of cross section of transmission line structures</li>
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3D domain solution as well as 2D solution of a longitudinally infinite version of the structure defined on a 2D plane </li>
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Calculation of electric potential and electric field distribution</li>
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Parametric sweep of transmission line's geometric and material parameters</li>
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Optimization of transmission line's parameters for impedance design</li>
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=== Data Generation & Visualization ===
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Electric and magnetic field intensity and vector plots on planes</li>
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Electric potential intensity plots</li>
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Animation of field and potential plots after parametric sweeps</li>
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Graphs of characteristic impedance and effective permittivity of transmission line structures vs. sweep variables</li>
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Custom output parameters defined as mathematical expressions of standard outputs</li>
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== A Static Simulation Primer ==
