TEAM (Testing Electromagnetic Analysis Methods) represents an open international working group aiming to compare electromagnetic analysis computer codes.
TEAM Workshops are meetings of this group. A series of TEAM Workshops was started in 1986 and has been organizated in two-year rounds, each comprising a series of "Regional" workshops and a "Final" Workshop, as a satelite event of the COMPUMAG Conference.
The goals were stated at COMPUMAG - Fort Collins in
June as:
"The ultimate goal is to show the effectivness of
numerical techniques and associated computer codes in solving
electromagnetic field problems, and to gain confidence in their
predictions. The workshops should also provide cooperation
between workers, leading to an interchange of ideas."
COMPUMAG
TEAM Page
There is a list of test-problems, very precisely defined dimensions, constitutive laws of materials, excitations, etc., and each backed by a real laboratory device, on which measurements can be made. At workshops present and compare numerical results and make critical examination of discrepancies, both with respect to the benchmark and between various results, and we try to explain them. A lot can be learned this way about the basic differences between various formulations, about the behavior of numerical algorithms, the efficienty of codes, and also-rathen often-about the fuzziness in the definition of constitutive laws, and the difficulties of measurement.
When the interest of a problem seems to have been exhausted,
at least momentarily, it may be declared "closed" by the TEAM planning board, during
meetings that are held at the end of each round, durind the
summary workshop. Suggestions for new problems are welcome at all
workshops, and the list of open
problems is updated in accordance by the planning board,
again at end of each round.
New results for closed problems are not expected to be presented
at TEAM workshops. However, closed problems have occasionally
been "revisited", with new insight coming in the
process. When this is the case, contributions of this kind are
welcome at TEAM workshops.