MLFMA-FFT parallel algorithm for the solution of extremely large problems in electromagnetics

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 350-363

  Taboada, Jose Manuel ^a   Araujo, Marta G ^b   Basteiro, Fernando Obelleiro ^b   Rodriguez, Jose Luis ^b   Landesa, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic analysis; electromagnetic scattering; fast solvers; integral equations; method of moments (MoM); parallel algorithms; supercomputing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; ELECTROMAGNETS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; FAST SOLVERS; METHOD OF MOMENTS (MOM); SUPERCOMPUTING;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 84872603698     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2194269     Document Type: Article

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