Solving Maxwell's Equations to Improve Wifi Reception

[ForHackernews]

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/03/hack_your_wi_fi_in_an_android_app_electromagnetic_waves_finally_do_something.html

[bluusteel]

Sounds like a good project for a graduate level computational electromagnetics course. The method used in this app is FDTD, which is pretty easy to understand and implement compared to other methods for solving Maxwell's equations numerically[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_electromagnetics

[jhallenworld]

How is this different from NEC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Electromagnetics_Code

Well here you go: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5...