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The MiRa/THESIS3D-Code Package for Resonator Design and Modeling of Millimeter-Wave Material Processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

L. Feher ,
G. Link  and
M. Thumm
L. Feher
Affiliation:
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Technik und Umwelt Institut für Technische Physik-ITP P.O.Box 3640, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
G. Link
Affiliation:
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Technik und Umwelt Institut für Technische Physik-ITP P.O.Box 3640, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
M. Thumm
Affiliation:
and University Karlsruhe, Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik und Elektronik, Kaiserstr.12, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Abstract

Precise knowledge of millimeter-wave oven properties and design studies have to be obtained by 3D numerical field calculations. A simulation code solving the electromagnetic field problem based on a covariant raytracing scheme (MiRa-Code) has been developed. Time dependent electromagnetic field-material interactions during sintering as well as the heat transfer processes within the samples has been investigated. A numerical code solving the nonlinear heat transfer problem due to millimeter-wave heating has been developed (THESIS3D-Code). For a self consistent sintering simulation, a zip interface between both codes exchanging the time advancing fields and material parameters is implemented. Recent results and progress on calculations of field distributions in large overmoded resonators as well as results on modeling heating of materials with millimeter waves are presented in this paper. The calculations are compared to experiments.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 430: Symposium O – Microwave Processing of Materials V , 1996 , 363
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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