drewet/openEMS-Project

openEMS is a free and open electromagnetic field solver using the FDTD method.

openEMS is a free and open electromagnetic field solver using the FDTD method. Matlab or Octave are used as an easy and flexible scripting interface.

Website: http://openEMS.de
Forum: http://openEMS.de/forum
Wiki: http://openems.de/index.php
Github: https://github.com/thliebig/openEMS-Project
IRC: #openEMS on freenode

openEMS Features:

• fully 3D Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates graded mesh.
• Multi-threading, SIMD (SSE) and MPI support for high speed FDTD.
• Octave and Matlab-Interface
• Dispersive material (Drude/Lorentz/Debye type)
• Field dumps in time and frequency domain as vtk or hdf5 file format
• Flexible post-processing routines in Octave/Matlab
• and many more

Install Instruction

Requirements

Ubuntu

• Install all necessary dependencies, e.g. on Ubuntu 12.04:
  

sudo apt-get install build-essential git libhdf5-openmpi-dev libvtk5-dev libboost-all-dev libcgal-dev libtinyxml-dev libqt4-dev libvtk5-qt4-dev

• Install all necessary dependencies, e.g. on Ubuntu 13.04 and above:
  

sudo apt-get install build-essential git libhdf5-dev libvtk5-dev libboost-all-dev libcgal-dev libtinyxml-dev libqt4-dev libvtk5-qt4-dev

• Optional: Install octave and octave devel packages:
  

sudo apt-get install octave liboctave-dev

• Optional: For the package hyp2mat you need additonal dependencies:
  

sudo apt-get install gengetopt help2man groff pod2pdf bison flex libhpdf-dev libtool

Fedora

• Install all necessary dependencies, e.g. on Fedora 19:
  

sudo yum install make gcc gcc-c++ git hdf5-devel vtk-devel boost-devel CGAL-devel tinyxml-devel qt-devel vtk-qt

Clone, build and install

• Clone this repository, build openEMS and install e.g. to "~/opt/openEMS":
  

git clone https://github.com/thliebig/openEMS-Project.git
cd openEMS-Project
./update_openEMS.sh ~/opt/openEMS

or including hyp2mat and CTB:

./update_openEMS.sh ~/opt/openEMS --with-hyp2mat --with-CTB

• Add the given paths to your Octave/Matlab environment (e.g.):
  

addpath('~/opt/openEMS/share/openEMS/matlab');
addpath('~/opt/openEMS/share/CSXCAD/matlab');

• Add the optional packages to your Octave/Matlab environment (e.g.):
  

addpath('~/opt/openEMS/share/hyp2mat/matlab');
addpath('~/opt/openEMS/share/CTB/matlab');

For more informations and other platforms see: http://www.openems.de/index.php/OpenEMS#Installation

Update Instruction:

• Perform an update in case of a new release

Note: Changes you may have made (e.g. to the tutorials or examples) may be overwritten!

cd openEMS-Project
git pull
./update_openEMS.sh ~/opt/openEMS

Switch to the stable version:

• Fetch all remote trees
• checkout and track the remote stable branch
• update, build and install

Note: Changes you may have made (e.g. to the tutorials or examples) may be overwritten!

cd openEMS-Project
git fetch --all
git checkout -b stable origin/stable
./update_openEMS.sh ~/opt/openEMS

• You may want to switch back to the master branch:

Note: Changes you may have made (e.g. to the tutorials or examples) may be overwritten!

cd openEMS-Project
git checkout master
./update_openEMS.sh ~/opt/openEMS