Simulate a Faraday Cage using Constrained Quadratic Programming

Version 1.0.0.0 (6.22 MB) by Adam Hug
This script demonstrates how to simulate electromagnetic shielding of a Faraday cage.
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Updated 10 Mar 2016

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This is a live script tutorial on how to set up the necessary equations for electromagnetic interaction of point charges. The tutorial can be used as a template for modelling other systems of interacting point objects.

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Adam Hug (2025). Simulate a Faraday Cage using Constrained Quadratic Programming (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/55462-simulate-a-faraday-cage-using-constrained-quadratic-programming), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Inspired: Electrostatic Induction Explorer

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1.0.0.0

I changed variable names and hard coded values such that they are different from those published in the paper. The methods/ideas I implemented were touched on in the paper but all the code and implementation details are my own.
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