A volume structure based ECS-PER algorithm for the hybrid electromagnetic field-circuit simulation

A new algorithm for the hybrid electromagnetic (EM) field-circuit simulation is proposed. It employs the equivalent current source with parallel equivalent resistance (ECS-PER) to simulate the effect of an EM subsystem on a circuit subsystem and adopts the volume structure to map the lumped circuit into the finite-difference time-domain cells. By including an additional current term in Maxwell-Ampere’s Law to represent the current density of the lumped circuit and using the finite difference scheme, the formulas of the proposed volume structure based ECS-PER algorithm is deduced for the first time. Two numerical examples of microwave circuits radiated under external EM incidence are simulated, and the results verify the accuracy and versatility of the proposed algorithm.