Fast iterative calculation of large body mounted antenna radiation using adaptive cross approximation

This paper describes the application of ACA (Adaptive Cross Approximation) algorithm for acceleration of MoM solution of large scale radiation problems. System of linear equations is solved using iterative solution and ACA is used to reduce required memory for matrix storage and speed up matrix-vector-product operation. To demonstrate applicability and performance of described technique, two numerical experiments are presented: a) calculation of radiation pattern of Magellan spacecraft high gain reflector antenna operating at 3GHz and b) calculation of radiation pattern of Wi-Fi antenna mounted on the roof of the vehicle, operating at 5.9GHz frequency. We show that ACA calculation is much faster than direct solution, while accuracy is quite acceptable.