Title :
A stable, PWTD-accelerated time domain integral equation solver
Author :
Pray, Andrew J. ; Nair, Naveen V. ; Shanker, Balasubramaniam
Author_Institution :
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA
Abstract :
Time domain analysis of electromagnetic scattering and radiation problems has a wide variety of applications from nonlinear circuits and antenna feeds to electromagnetic pulse studies. The ability to model nonlinearities and to perform broadband analysis makes time domain methods attractive in comparison to their frequency domain counterparts. An integral equation framework for time domain analysis also offers a number of benefits, such as satisfying radiation boundary conditions, being dispersionless, and providing an effective method for truncating the computation domain in differential equation based solvers.
Keywords :
antenna feeds; differential equations; electric field integral equations; electromagnetic pulse; electromagnetic wave scattering; magnetic field integral equations; time-domain analysis; antenna feed; broadband analysis; differential equation; electromagnetic pulse study; electromagnetic radiation; electromagnetic scattering; frequency domain counterpart; nonlinear circuit; radiation boundary condition; stable PWTD-accelerated time domain integral equation solver; Acceleration; Educational institutions; Electromagnetic scattering; Equations; Integral equations; Mathematical model; Time-domain analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium), 2014 USNC-URSI
Conference_Location :
Memphis, TN
DOI :
10.1109/USNC-URSI.2014.6955542