Solving Maxwell's Equations to Improve Wifi Reception

Sounds like a good project for a graduate level computational electromagnetics course. The method used in this app is FDTD, which is pretty easy to understand and implement compared to other methods for solving Maxwell's equations numerically[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_electromagnetics

How is this different from NEC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Electromagnetics_Code

Well here you go: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5...