Feko is a computational electromagnetics software product developed by Altair Engineering.[3] The name is derived from the German acronym "Feldberechnung für Körper mit beliebiger Oberfläche", which can be translated as "field calculations involving bodies of arbitrary shape".[4] It is a general purpose 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulator.
Developer(s) | Altair Engineering |
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Stable release | |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows and Linux |
Type | EM simulation software |
License | Proprietary commercial software |
Website | Altair website Feko website |
FEKO originated in 1991 from research activities of Dr. Ulrich Jakobus at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.[5] Cooperation between Dr. Jakobus and EM Software & Systems (EMSS)[6] resulted in the commercialisation of FEKO in 1997.[7] In June 2014, Altair Engineering acquired 100% of EMSS-S.A. and its international distributor offices in the United States, Germany and China, leading to the addition of FEKO to the Altair Hyperworks suite of engineering simulation software.[6][8][9][10]
The software is based on the Method of Moments (MoM) integral formulation of Maxwell's equations[11] [12] [13] [14] and pioneered the commercial implementation of various hybrid methods such as:
A Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) solver was added in May 2014 with the release of FEKO Suite 7.0.[17]
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