Fast and accurate analysis of large metamaterial structures using the multilevel fast multipole algorithm

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 95, Issue , 2009, Pages 179-198

  Gurel L ^a   Ergul O ^a   Unal A ^a,b   Malas, T ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Meteksan Defence   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; ELECTRIC FIELDS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METAMATERIALS;

ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION; FAST AND ACCURATE SIMULATIONS; HOMOGENIZATION APPROXIMATION; MATRIX VECTOR MULTIPLICATION; MULTI-LEVEL FAST MULTI-POLE ALGORITHM; PRECONDITIONING TECHNIQUES; RAO-WILTON-GLISSON BASIS FUNCTIONS; SPARSE APPROXIMATE INVERSE;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 70349540635     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER09060106     Document Type: Article

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