Efficient solution of the electric and magnetic current combined-field integral equation with the multilevel fast multipole algorithm and block-diagonal preconditioning

Radio Science

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Ergul O ^a   Gurel L ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINED FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; COMPOSITE DIELECTRICS; DENSE MATRICES; DIAGONAL MATRICES; DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; DISCRETIZATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PARAMETERS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; ITERATION COUNT; MAGNETIC CURRENTS; MATRIX EQUATIONS; MATRIX VECTOR MULTIPLICATION; METALLIC STRUCTURES; MULTI-LEVEL FAST MULTI-POLE ALGORITHM; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; PRECONDITIONERS; RAO-WILTON-GLISSON FUNCTIONS; RAPID CONVERGENCE;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 76749158517     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009RS004143     Document Type: Article

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