A flexible and efficient higher order FE-BI-MLFMA for scattering by a large body with deep cavities

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2031-2042

  Peng, Zhen ^a,b,c   Sheng, Xin Qing ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Deep cavity; Electromagnetic scattering; Finite element boundary integral multilevel fast multipole algorithm (FE BI MLFMA); Hierarchical higher order curvilinear vector finite element (HCVFE)

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH PLATING; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; SCATTERING;

BASIS FUNCTIONS; CHALLENGE PROBLEM; DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHMS; DEEP CAVITIES; GEOMETRY CHARACTERISTICS; HIGHER ORDER; HYBRID FINITE ELEMENTS; MULTILEVEL FAST MULTIPOLE ALGORITHM (MLFMA); NUMERICA L RESULTS; NUMERICAL DISPERSIONS; VECTOR FINITE ELEMENT;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 47249117974     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.924725     Document Type: Article

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