This work will extend and revise the design of the Computational Electromagnetic Framework to provide graphical user interface and pre- and post-processing capabilities to a variety of computational electromagnetic (CEM) software products for accurate and rapid design and prototyping for a variety of practical real-world DoD electromagnetic problems. Five Framework components are proposed: a model builder in which users describe the geometrical structure and have it translated into EM models; an application builder, in which users construct the "scene" to be simulated, complete with environment, sources, observables, geometries, etc.; a post-processor by which users format, manipulate, and visualize electromagnetic and engineering results, a database into which all models and results are restored and from which they are retrieved; and a Remote Software Management Console, from which a suite of CEM codes - perhaps residing on different computers - can be programmed, executed, and result retrieved.
Benefits: The extended CEM Framwork proposed herein represents a new and innovative way for government agencies, their contractors, universities and commercial firms to approach electromagnetic modeling from a collaborative paradigm. The goal is to produce a product to leverage scarce electromagnetic expertise by applying it only where it is essential and letting less experienced engineers perform most of the tasks. The cost savings of this approach is potentially enormous for both government and commercial organizations in such areas as antenna analysis and design, radar, in-situ antenna coupling, radiation and scattering, EMC/EMI, HAEMP, high power microwave, and the management of analyses in these areas.
Keywords: Electromagnetic, Collaboration, CEM Framework, Visualization, GEMACS, Rule-based
