Full-wave computation of monostatic RCS using ray-tracing and adaptive macro-basis functions

This article presents a technique for the computation of the monostatic radar cross section of complex objects based on a combination of macro-basis functions (MBFs) and the multilevel fast multipole algorithm. An initial pool of excitation-independent MBFs is first obtained, generating the correspo...

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Autores: Delgado Hita, Carlos|||0000-0003-0981-6527, García García, Eliseo|||0000-0002-4411-5307, Lozano Plata, Lorena|||0000-0002-0137-7868, Cátedra Pérez, Manuel Felipe|||0000-0003-0914-6391
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/60410
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/60410
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2020.3037664
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Informática
Computer science
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Sumario:This article presents a technique for the computation of the monostatic radar cross section of complex objects based on a combination of macro-basis functions (MBFs) and the multilevel fast multipole algorithm. An initial pool of excitation-independent MBFs is first obtained, generating the corresponding reduced coupling matrix as well as the multipole data. For each excitation, ray-tracing processing is performed, extracting a number of critical points that are used to obtain a mask that allows to dynamically select the basis functions to be considered in the analysis. This strategy allows a noticeable reduction in the size of the problems with minimal CPU-time preprocessing overhead.