Solving Maxwell's Equations to Improve Wifi Reception

Posted by ForHackernews on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @03:34PM
from the slate.com dept.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/03/hack_your_wi_fi_in_an_android_app_electromagnetic_waves_finally_do_something.html

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Re:Solving Maxwell's Equations to Improve Wifi Reception by bluusteel on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @08:51PM (#9267112)

Sounds like a good project for a graduate level computational electromagnetics course. The method used in this app is FDTD, which is pretty easy to understand and implement compared to other methods for solving Maxwell's equations numerically[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_electromagnetics

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Re:Solving Maxwell's Equations to Improve Wifi Reception by jhallenworld on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @05:40PM (#9266131)

How is this different from NEC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Electromagnetics_Code

Well here you go: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5...

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