The Bilkent University Computational Electromagnetics Research Center (BiLCEM) is an excellence center (led by Prof. Levent Gürel) that is dedicated to the study of the solution of real-life electromagnetics problems using cutting-edge computing technologies.

Applications involve radars, antennas, nanostructures, metamaterials, microelectronics, optics, mobile phone systems, etc. These complicated problems require the numerical solution of extremely large matrix equations. For example, the F-16 fighter illustrated in the picture is modeled with millions of triangles.

BiLCEM researchers develop fast solution techniques to solve such large problems. They also use high-performance computers and construct parallel computing platforms to satisfy the high computational requirements needed for the solutions of millions of unknowns.