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EPSRC Reference:	GR/R93445/01
Title:	FARADAY FAST TRACK PROPOSAL: ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATABILITY IN COMPLEX ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
Principal Investigator:	Tew, Dr RH
Other Investigators:	Christopoulos, Professor C
Researcher Co-Investigators:	Professor ID Abrahams Professor V Smyshlyaev Dr M Spivack
Project Partners:	BAE Systems Motor Industry Research Assoc. (MIRA)
Department:	Sch of Mathematical Sciences
Organisation:	University of Nottingham
Scheme:	Faraday (PreFEC)
Starts:	16 September 2002	Ends:	15 February 2005	Value (£):	98,696
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Continuum Mechanics Electromagnetics
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Aerospace, Defence and Marine Transport Systems and Vehicles Technical Consultancy
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Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) - the ability of two nearby circuits to operate without mutual interference - is a serious issue in many industrial applications, and often affects safety issues. This gives rise to a high demand for accurate EMC prediction techniques which can be applied to electrical problems of industrial relevance in a reliable and cost-effective way.The associated technical difficulties are immense since the electrical complexity (which includes the vast array of individual components and how they are inter-connected etc) mean that existing numerical solvers cannot handle such complex configurations in realistic tame and cost scales, if at all. Stochastic variations in real-world configurations add significantly to these difficulties.We aim to develop mathematical, numerical and stochastic homogenization techniques relevant to modelling such systems in a well-defined 'average' sense - removing the need to use full-scale numerical attacks on the unapproximated Maxwell's equations. We plan to apply our results to problems of industrial importance, hopefully providing a method which is practical enough to cope with a wide diversity of electrical systems but which does not compromise accuracy.
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