Guest Editorial
Modeling and Simulation Challenges in
Microwave Engineering
This special issue entitled ‘‘Modeling and Simulation Challenges in Microwave Engineering’’ contains invited/ selected articles from The 12th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS 2012, http://mms.dogus.edu.tr), which was held at Dogus University during September 2–5, 2012
at the same time together with The 6th URSI-Turkey National Assembly and Congress (URSI-Turkey 2012, http://ursi.dogus.edu.tr). Technical programs of MMS 2012 covered a vast array of electromagnetic and micro-wave topics, including micromicro-wave circuit design and applications, the latest breakthroughs in antenna design, wireless communications, exotic materials, biomedical applications, numerical methods, etc.
A series of short courses/tutorials were also organized by esteemed experts/scientists (all are IEEE Fellows/Dis-tinguished Lecturers): Prof. Pyotr Ya. UFIMTSEV (father of the PTD and stealth design), Prof. Dr. Constantine BALANIS (world-wide known antenna master), Prof. Dr. Levent GU¨ REL (world record holder of electromagnetic solvers with billions of unknowns), Prof. Dr. Shiban K KOUL (worldwide expert on microwave teaching), Prof. Dr. Sembiam RENGARAJAN (master on waveguide slot antennas), and Prof. Dr. O¨ zlem Aydın C¸_IV_I (European lecturer on MEMS).
It was also once in a lifetime opportunity having two keynote speeches on theHistory of the Diffraction during the opening session with two esteemed scientists. First,
Prof. Ufimtsev addressed ‘‘Fifty Year of Physical Theory of Diffraction (PTD).’’ Then, Prof. Balanis summarized ‘‘Geometric/Uniform Theory of Diffraction and Its Applications.’’
The first article in this issue, entitled ‘‘Fifty Years of Diffraction,’’ prepared by Balanis, Sevgi, and Ufimtsev summarizes these keynote speeches. The other articles dis-cuss different modeling and simulation aspects in electro-magnetics and microwave engineering. I express my grati-tude to all contributing authors.
Gonul Turhan Sayan from Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical Uni-versity, Ankara, Turkey, Salvatore Caorsi from Diparti-mento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell’Informazione, Uni-versity of Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy, Homayoon Oraizi from Department of Electrical Engineering, Iran Univer-sity of Science and Technology, Ozlem Ozgun from Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, TED University, Ankara, Turkey, Sembiam R Rengarajan from California State University, USA, Ayhan Altintas from Bilkent University, Ankara, and Shiban K. KOUL from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India are the members of the selection/review committee of this issue. Thanks to all for their efforts and contributions which make this issue a great success.
Last but by no means least, thanks to my colleague and dear friend Inder Bahl, Editor-in-Chief of RFMiCAE, for accepting my special issue proposal and for his full support during the preparations. I hope the reader will enjoy reading this special issue and will find it useful.
LEVENTSEVGI Guest Editor
VC 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol. 23, No. 4, 393 (2013) DOI 10.1002/mmce.20724
Published online 8 April 2013 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com).
