This book discusses surrogate modeling of high-frequency structures
including antenna and microwave components. The focus is on constrained
or performance-driven surrogates. The presented techniques aim at
addressing the limitations of conventional modeling methods, pertinent
to the issues of dimensionality and parameter ranges that need to be
covered by the surrogate to ensure its design utility. Within
performance-driven methodologies, mitigation of these problems is
achieved through appropriate confinement of the model domain, focused on
the regions promising from the point of view of the relevant design
objectives. This enables the construction of reliable surrogates at a
fraction of cost required by conventional methods, and to accomplish the
modeling tasks where other techniques routinely fail. The book provides
a broad selection of specific frameworks, extensively illustrated using
examples of real-world microwave and antenna structures along with
numerous design examples. Furthermore, the book contains introductory
material on data-driven and physics-based surrogates. The book will be
useful for the readers working in the area of high-frequency
electronics, including microwave engineering, antenna design, microwave
photonics, magnetism, especially those that utilize electromagnetic (EM)
simulation models in their daily routines.
- Covers performance-driven and constrained modeling methods, not
available in other books to date;
- Discusses of a wide range of practical case studies including a
variety of microwave and antenna structures;
- Includes design applications of the presented modeling frameworks,
including single- and multi-objective parametric optimization.
