A comparative study of Calderón preconditioners for PMCHWT equations

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2375-2383

  Yan, Su ^a,b   Jin, Jian Ming ^b   Nie, Zaiping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

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

Author keywords

Calder n preconditioner; electromagnetic scattering; method of moments (MoM); numerical analysis; Poggio Miller Chang Harrington Wu Tsai (PMCHWT) equations

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; CONVERGENCE RATES; DIELECTRIC OBJECTS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; ITERATIVE SOLUTIONS; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; POGGIO-MILLER-CHANG-HARRINGTON-WU-TSAI; PRECONDITIONERS; SOLUTION ACCURACY; WAVE SCATTERING;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

WAVE EQUATIONS;

EID: 77954549224     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2048881     Document Type: Article

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