On the Use of Quadrilateral Meshes for Enhanced Analysis of Waveguide Devices with Manhattan-Type Geometry Cross-Sections

Mohamad Hosein Rasekhmanesh, Gines Garcia-Contreras, Juan Córcoles and Jorge A. Ruiz-Cruz
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Mohamad Hosein Rasekhmanesh: Group of RadioFrequency: Circuits and Systems (RFCAS), Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Gines Garcia-Contreras: Group of RadioFrequency: Circuits and Systems (RFCAS), Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Juan Córcoles: Group of RadioFrequency: Circuits and Systems (RFCAS), Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Jorge A. Ruiz-Cruz: Group of RadioFrequency: Circuits and Systems (RFCAS), Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-15

Abstract: This work addresses the suitability of using structured meshes composed of quadrilateral finite elements, instead of the classical unstructured meshes made of triangular elements. These meshes are used in the modal analysis of waveguides with Manhattan-like cross-sections. For this problem, solved with the two-dimensional Finite Element Method, there are two main quality metrics: eigenvalue and eigenvector accuracy. The eigenvalue accuracy is first considered, showing how the proposed structured meshes are, given comparable densities, better, especially when dealing with waveguides presenting pairs of modes with the same cutoff frequency. The second metric is measured through a practical problem, which commonly appears in microwave engineering: discontinuity analysis. In this problem, for which the Mode-Matching technique is used, eigenvectors are needed to compute the coupling between the modes in the discontinuities, directly influencing the quality of the transmission and reflection parameters. In this case, it is found that the proposed analysis performs better given low-density meshes and mode counts, thus proving that quadrilateral-element structured meshes are more resilient than their triangular counterparts to higher-order eigenvectors.

Keywords: finite-element method; mode-matching method; Lagrange elements; triangular cell types; quadrilateral cell types; degenerate mode analysis; waveguide devices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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