Preconditioning techniques in the analysis of finite metamaterial slabs

In the method of moments (MoM) electric field integral equation (EFIE) analysis of slabs of metamaterials, we show that a left-preconditioning scheme by blocks gathering interactions between basis functions belonging to each basic cell of the metamaterial reaches convergence in less iterations and w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Úbeda Farré, Eduard|||0000-0001-6759-0445, Rius Casals, Juan Manuel|||0000-0003-0606-5422, Romeu Robert, Jordi|||0000-0003-0197-5961
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/1710
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/1710
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Basis functions
Computational time
Convergence of numerical methods
EFIE analysis
Electric field integral equations
Finite metamaterial slab
Iterative methods
Metamaterials
Method of moments
Preconditioning technique
EFIE
MoM
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Sumario:In the method of moments (MoM) electric field integral equation (EFIE) analysis of slabs of metamaterials, we show that a left-preconditioning scheme by blocks gathering interactions between basis functions belonging to each basic cell of the metamaterial reaches convergence in less iterations and with less computational time than a left-preconditioner based on discarding interactions between basis functions beyond a given distance.