Windows porting of the well-known 3D capacitance solver FastCap
FastCap2 is a software for computing the self and mutual capacitances of conductive three-dimensional structures embedded in a dielectric. The dielectric can be homogeneous or inhomogeneous.A de-facto golden reference standard, FastCap2 is derived from FastCap, originally developed by Keith Nabors at M.I.T. on Unix platform for the solution of Maxwell equations and extraction of capacitiances.
Binary and source code versions, including the original M.I.T. code, are available from our download section. The original FastCap source code distribution is also available directly from M.I.T. at the link in our links page.
FastCap computes the self and mutual capacitances of conductive tridimensional structures embedded in a dielectric.
The dielectric can be homogeneous or inhomogeneous.
The input data, specifying the discretizaion of the conductors and of the discontinuities surfaces as triangular or
quadrangular panels in the 3D space, must be provided in a file.
Since a constant charge density is associated to every panel, the panel dimensions are a key factor to obtain accurate results.
The results are provided in form of a Maxwell capacitance matrix.