title: On the problem of normal modes of a waveguide
abstract: Various approaches to calculating normal modes of a closed waveguide are considered. A review of the literature was given, a comparison of the two formulations of this problem was made. It is shown that using a self-adjoint formulation of the problem of normal waveguide modes eliminates the occurrence of artifacts associated with the appearance of a small imaginary additive to the eigenvalues. The implementation of this approach for a rectangular waveguide with rectangular inserts in the Sage co
journal: Discrete and Continuous Models and Applied Computational Science