Title :
RCS convergence versus the number of unknowns and very low frequency behavior of the galerkin MFIE discretizations of sharp-edged objects with monopolar RWG and nxRWG basis functions
Author :
Ubeda, Eduard ; Rius, Juan M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Signal Theor. & Commun. (TSC), Univ. Politec. de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona
Abstract :
We have shown for an electrically small tetrahedron that the RWG monopolar discretization of the MoM-MFIE is best converging versus the number of unknowns when compared to other MoM-MFIE discretizations, such as RWG, linear-linear or nxRWG. The result of analyzing the objects with EFIE[RWG] and an extremely fine discretization is adopted as reference because of its best convergence, coinciding with EFIE[LL]. Moreover, we have shown that when decreasing the electrical dimensions of a cube, the nxRWG discretization of MoM-MFIE shows a clear inaccuracy for frequencies where the monopolar RWG set shows still no disagreement respect to EFIE[RWG]. The validity of these observations can be extended to other examples of sharp-edged objects.
Keywords :
Galerkin method; electric field integral equations; magnetic field integral equations; method of moments; EFIE; Galerkin MFIE discretizations; MoM-MFIE discretizations; RCS convergence; RWG monopolar discretization; electrically small tetrahedron; linear-linear discretizations; nxRWG basis functions; sharp-edged objects; Boundary element methods; Convergence; Frequency; High performance computing; Integral equations; Kernel; Moment methods; Scattering; Signal analysis; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008. AP-S 2008. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2041-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2042-1
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2008.4619880