Robert Fennis
The Amp Hour
E&M Reality Emerges with Robert Fennis
- Published
- August 19, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 22m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 20, 2026
Discusses Robert Fennis is an RF engineer and consultant from the Netherlands and the creator of EMerge: a fre…
Summary
Robert Fennis is an RF engineer and consultant from the Netherlands and the creator of EMerge: a free, open-source 3D Finite Element Method (FEM) electromagnetic solver written in Python. He joins Chris to discuss demystifying the black magic of RF engineering, the mathematical and physics foundations of simulation, and how Emerge is “the IKEA of FEM solv…
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Robert Fennis is an RF engineer and consultant from the Netherlands and the creator of EMerge: a free, open-source 3D Finite Element Method (FEM) electromagnetic solver written in Python. He joins Chris to discuss demystifying the black magic of RF engineering, the mathematical and physics foundations of simulation, and how Emerge is “the IKEA of FEM solvers” in that it makes electromagnetic simulation accessible to everyone. Timeline Chris welcomes Robert Fennis, creator of EMerge, to discuss R