Analysis of elliptical waveguides by the method of fundamental solutions

Abstract

The present work describes the application of the method of fundamental solutions (MFS) for the solution of cutoff wavelengths of elliptical waveguides. Since the MFS employs a formulation using boundary values only, the cutoff wavelengths are determined by applying the singular value decomposition (SVD) technique. The use of the MFS to solve the governing (Helmholtz) equation guarantees a solution without singularities, since it does not use discretized points to determine the solution at the interior of the computational domain. The combination of the MFS and SVD techniques has resulted in a simpler and efficient numerical solution procedure, as compared to other schemes.