Siavoush M. Mohammadi
Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
Anders Hast
UPPMAX, Uppsala University, Sweden
Lars K. S. Daldorff
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden
Martin Ericsson
UPPMAX, Uppsala University, Sweden
Jan E. S. Bergman
Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
Bo Thidé
Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
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Published in: SIGRAD 2008. The Annual SIGRAD Conference Special Theme: Interaction; November 27-28; 2008 Stockholm; Sweden
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 34:16, p. 71-74
Published: 2008-11-27
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ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Recent development in classical electrodynamics has demonstrated the usefulness of different rotational and topological modes in the electromagnetic fields (angular momentum; polarization; vorticity etc.). Unfortunately; the visualization tools available to illustrate these electrodynamic quantities have hitherto been inadequate. Therefore we have developed a VTK and Python based interactive visualization tool; with working name EMVT (ElectroMagnetic Visualization Tool); targeted at visualizing precisely these modes.
In the near future; EMVT will be further developed to visualize and control live antenna systems; where electromagnetic field data is instantly received; calculated; and visualized from an antenna or a system of antennas. It will then be possible to see how the antenna properties change through direct user interaction in real time.
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