The Fast Multipole Method: Numerical Implementation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 195-240

  Darve, Eric ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational Aspects; Electromagnetic theory; Fast multipole method; Iterative Method; Matrix Compression Algorithms; Scattering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC FIELDS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORIES; FAST-MULTIPOLE METHODS; INTEGRAL METHOD; MATRIX COMPRESSION; MATRIX COMPRESSION ALGORITHM; MATRIX-VECTOR PRODUCTS; METHOD: NUMERICAL; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION;

LINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0000893843     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6451     Document Type: Article

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