MaX-1 Software

MaX-1, A Visual Electromagnetics Platform, is a graphic platform for computational electromagnetics containing advanced tools for the visualization and animation of electromagnetic fields as well as numeric semi-analytic and analytic Maxwell techniques. Part-based on the Multiple Multipole (MMP) technique and part-based on the Generalized Finite Difference (GFD) scheme, MaX-1 is a powerful method with high reliability and accuracy of results.
The product combines an authoritative new executable (MaX-1) together with an extensive tutorial package which demonstrates its diverse features, high level of flexibility and broad range of applications. The User Manual and Tutorial are included in the CD-ROM together with input files of all examples considered in the tutorial and corresponding AVI movie animation files. On-line help from the author is also available to all users of MaX-1.
A powerful new graphics platform for creative electromagnetics solutions, MaX-1 combines an authoritative new executable together with advanced tools for the visualization and animation of the computations. Highly user-friendly, MaX-1 is designed in the context of understanding how to perform computational electromagnetics and adapt existing techniques to solve a particular problem. An extended tutorial package supporting the software helps flatten the learning curve for the user and demonstrates the diverse features, broad range of applications and high level of flexibility afforded by MaX-1.
Getting Started with MaX-1 the accompanying guide, provides step-by-step illustrated guidance through the solution of the default MaX-1 problem using numeric, semi-analytic and analytic Maxwell solvers. Users Max-1 is an essential tool for students interested in advanced numerical approaches and researchers developing new codes for computational electromagnetics. The high accuracy and reliability of results will significantly benefit the work of electromagnetics practitioners in both industrial and defence applications.

Features of MaX-1

• On-line technical support from the author
• Network licenses available
• Maxwell solvers based on boundary methods -- the Multiple Multipole Program (MMP) -- and on domain methods -- the Generalized Finite Differences (GFD) implementation
• A new 2-D version of the MMP technique with a wide range of applications including statics, scattering, gratings, antennae, antenna arrays, guided waves, resonators, coupling and discontinuities as well as advanced features such as error estimation, connections, parameter and eigenvalue extrapolation techniques
• One-, two- and three-dimensional Generalized Finite Differences methods with user-definable operators on regular and irregular grids for statics, frequency domain, or time-domain solutions
• User-definable 3-D grid transformations and conformal mapping of 2-D grids
• Simple graphical modeling of 2-D boundaries
• Advanced 3-D field representation of scalar and vector fields affording the user a high level of flexibility. Specific geometries, materials, boundaries and conditions can be defined on regular and irregular grids

Package Contents

CD-ROM containing...

• MaX-1 executable
• Extended documentation
• Microsoft® Word, Help files, HTML files
• User Manual
• Extended Tutorial
• Making Movies Manual
• A special movie definition script language allowing the user to generate simple and sophisticated movies (AVI format)
• Over 180 project input files containing worked examples presented in the Tutorial
• Over 380 movie files of example animations generated by MaX-1 corresponding to the input files and illustrating the breadth of practical applications

CD-ROM Tutorial Contents:

• Analytic
• Statics
• Conformal mapping -
• Scattering Waveguides
• MMP - boundary method solutions
• Scattering
• Gratings
• Antenna
• Antenna Arrays

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• Guided Waves
• Resonators
• Coupling of Modes
• Waveguide Discontinuities
• Statics
• GFD - dorgain method solutions
• Statics
• Scattering
• Time Domain
• Irregular Grids
• Grid Transformation

Getting Started with MaX-1 manual

Getting Started with MaX-1, the accompanying guide, provides step-by-step illustrated guidance through the solution of the default MaX-1 problem using numeric, semi-analytic and analytic Maxwell solvers.

Contents Include:

• Introduction
• Graphic Platform
• Menus
• Dialogs
• File Structures
• Formula Interpreter
• Directives and Movies
• Analytic Solutions
• Semi-Analytic MMP Solutions
• Numeric GFD Solutions
• Glossary

System Requirements

MaX-1 can be installed on a PC running Microsoft® Windows 95® or Windows NT™ (Version 4.0 or higher). Systems should have 16MB or more physical memory.
When you run MaX-1 from the CD-ROM, no hard disk space is required for the installation. The hard disk space required for running MaX-1 depends on the size of the problem to be solved. Less than 1 MB of free space on your hard disk is sufficient for most of the examples as long as no AVI movie files are produced.

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Publication Details

MaX-1 is available on CD-ROM with an accompanying textbook on computational electromagnetics.

The price includes network licenses for up to 4 users.

A Software Demonstration is available, in zip file format

• If the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT32.DLL) is not installed on your PC, download and install it (see below).
• Unzip the file you have downloaded.
• Owners of the original version 1 of MaX-1:

• Move the executable MAX03A.EXE on the directory where you have the original MAX.EXE.
• Move the help file MAX03A.CHM on the directory where you have the original MAXMAN.HLP.

• Demo version users who do not own the original version 1 of MaX-1:

• Create the directories X:\MaX-1 and X:\MaX-1\bin, where X is any hard drive (C, D, E, ... Z) on your PC.
• Move the files you have unzipped on X:\MaX-1\bin. 

• Run MAX03A.EXE.