Mesh analysis (sometimes referred to as loop analysis or mesh current method) is a method that is used to solve planar circuits for the voltage and currents at any place in the circuit. Planar circuits are circuits that can be drawn on a plane with no wires overlapping each other. Mesh analysis uses Kirchhoff s voltage law to solve these planar circuits. The advantage of using mesh analysis is that it creates a systematic approach to solving planar circuits and reduces the number of equations needed to solve the circuit for all of the voltages and currents.