On preconditioning and the eigensystems of electromagnetic radiation problems

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 8 I, 2008, Pages 2413-2420

  Hesford, Andrew J ^a   Chew, Weng C ^b,c  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic radiation; Fast solvers; Iterative methods; Moment methods; Preconditioner

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; METHOD OF MOMENTS; SLOT ANTENNAS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENVECTORS; FAST SOLVERS; IMPEDANCE MATRICES; ITERATIVE SOLUTIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS (MOM); MULTI LEVEL FAST MULTIPOLE ALGORITHMS (MLFMA); NUMERICAL RESULTS; PRECONDITIONERS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 49749100726     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.926783     Document Type: Article

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