TLM method

Mr.Plough

Hi,

edit - sorry mods if this is in the wrong place

I'm having problems with my final year project which is on the transmission line matrix method:

"The method generates a system of simultaneous equations. This project will look at how to generate these equations efficiently for straightforward 2D problems and will compare different methods for solving them (in terms of efficiency)."

Can anyone help explain how the method actually generates these equations in a nutshell or have a link to a good guide because all I can find on the web is Journals which I can't access.

All coding I'm doing will be in matlab and my course is Mechanical Engineering.

As an aside I've just done a interim FYP presentation and it turns out I was talking about the FD method of solving equations rather than the TLM method of generating them.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Luke.

Turbulent Bill

Why don't you ask your supervisor for a guide?

Transmission line techniques are usually used in electrical networks (HV power lines etc.) or in RF electronic circuits. Look at any basic microwave electronics book for an introduction.

Darren1o1

My assumption is that this is a project for alan kennedy in dcu, a friend of mone did hers in the area.

You should just speak to alan, although he seems unapproached at the start i did see him helping his students in the labs WAAAAYY more than other lecturers. If you put in the work he is a pretty decent guy wioth helping out.

poskat

go talk to your supervisor now and keep at him till he explains it in a way that you can understand. tlm is actually quite easy to understand and quite straightforward to implement in matlab. again, ask your supervisor for help, thats what they are there for.

Darren1o1

Turbulent Bill wrote: »

Why don't you ask your supervisor for a guide?

Transmission line techniques are usually used in electrical networks (HV power lines etc.) or in RF electronic circuits. Look at any basic microwave electronics book for an introduction.

I think the application he will be doing if i am correct is diffusion and convection in fluids. It can be used in many areas like vibrations, electrical circuits, fluids etc

Mr.Plough

Darren1o1 wrote: »

My assumption is that this is a project for alan kennedy in dcu, a friend of mone did hers in the area.

You should just speak to alan, although he seems unapproached at the start i did see him helping his students in the labs WAAAAYY more than other lecturers. If you put in the work he is a pretty decent guy wioth helping out.

Yep spot on. Have a meeting on monday and a list of Q's drawn up. Thanks folks