Fast integral equation solvers in computational electromagnetics of complex structures

Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 803-823

  Chew, W C ^a   Chao, H Y ^a   Cui, T J ^b   Lu, C C ^c   Ohnuki, S ^a   Pan, Y C ^d   Song, J M ^e   Velamparambil, S ^f   Zhao, J S ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^e Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^f Ansoft Corporation   (United States)

^g Madmax Optics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetics; Fast integral equation solvers; Multilevel fast multipole algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GALERKIN METHODS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; POLES AND ZEROS;

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0041528161     PISSN: 09557997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-7997(03)00040-7     Document Type: Review

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