Field Precision LLC: Educational resources and freeware

(NEW) Finite-element Methods for Electromagnetics
This 320 page text, originally published by CRC Press, covers a broad range of practical applications involving electric and magnetic fields. After introducing numerical methods with a thorough treatment of electrostatics, the book moves in a structured sequence to advanced topics. These include magnetostatics with non-linear materials, permanent magnet devices, RF heating, eddy current analysis, electromagnetic pulses, microwave structures, and wave scattering.The book also covers essential supporting techniques such as mesh generation, interpolation, sparse matrix inversions, and advanced plotting routines.
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(NEW) KB
KB is an extensive package of computer codes and reference documents for modeling materials at high temperature and pressure. The Windows programs, available at no charge to educators and academic researchers, may be used in computer laboratories or distributed to students. The package is of particular interest to physicists, mechanical engineers and civil engineers. It provides students with a hands-on introduction to the hydrodynamic equations, the equation of state and critical concepts like the Hugoniot curve. The 130-page instruction manual reviews shock and detonation physics and includes an array of benchmark tests to illustrate accuracy issues in numerical modeling.
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Static-field Analysis Toolkit - Educational
You can download a freeware educational version of our popular 2D software for calculating static electric and magnetic fields. The package includes an automatic conformal mesh generator with an interactive drawing editor and DXF import capability. The solution programs have extensive advanced features. EStat (the electrostatic solver) handles anisotropic materials and mathematically-defined continuous spatial variations of dielectric constant or conductivity. PerMag (the magnetostatic solver) handles sauration effects and permanent magnets with non-linear demagnetization curves. The educational version supports up to 8 material regions and 12,500 nodes in a calculation.
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Training Videos
A serids of short (3-6 minute) videos in AVI (Windows Media Player) format. How to install and set up the software packages. Concepts of finite element solutions. Using the Mesh drawing editor. Building 2D and 3D solutions. Importing 3D parts from SolidWorks and ProE. And more...
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Software Tips Blog
Articles cover a wide range of topics, with tips on the effective use of your computer in technical calculations. Subjects include methods to find capacitance and inductance, applications of DOS batch files, setting up field emission simulations and importing objects from CAD programs. Also included are suggested course materials for instructors using our free SATE educational software. See the page Posts by program for advice on specific Field Precision packages.
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Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration
(ISBN 0-471-87878-2). This 573 page text, originally published by John Wiley and Sons, is a comprehensive introduction to the physics and technology of charged- particle accelerators. Topics include electrostatic accelerators, betatrons, linear induction accelerators, RF linacs, cyclotrons and synchrotrons. The unabridged book is available in PDF format.
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Charged Particle Beams
(ISBN 0-471-60014-8). This 834 page text, originally published by John Wiley and Sons, gives a broad review of collective beam physics. Topics include emittance, space- charge effects, design of electron and ion guns, generation of RF and microwave energy by beams and free-electron lasers. The unabridged book is available in PDF format.
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Southwest Vision
Field Precision has offices in Albuquerque (New Mexico), Abiquiu (New Mexico) and Estes Park (Colorado). This series of photographs shows magnificent isolated locations in the American southwest.
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The Scientists' Freeware Page
Our selection of the best resources available on the Internet.
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EMP3
EMP3 calculates electromagnetic pulse propagation in 3D systems with complex arrangements of conducting, dielectric and magnetic materials. The program has a wide range of applications, including design of pulsed-power and pulsed-beam diagnostics, EMI analysis, wake-field calculation, optimization of pulsed-power convolutes and simulation of microcircuit time response and interference effects. Field Precision has made EMP3 available at no charge to the international research community.
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