Title :
Analysis of monopole antenna by FDTD method using Beowulf cluster
Author :
Araujo, Jde.S. ; Santos, Ronaldo O. ; Sobrinho, C.Lda.S.S. ; Rocha, Johnny M. ; Guedes, Luiz A. ; Kawasaki, Regiane Y.
Author_Institution :
DEEC, Fed. Univ. of Para, Belem, Brazil
Abstract :
As far as we are concerned, the implementation of the finite differences in the time domain (FDTD) method requires, for the solutions of several practical problems in electromagnetism, a long process time and a large amount of memory, what makes it impracticable in various cases, principally when the serial process is used. The current work deals with the conception of a Beowulf cluster and it aims to implement the FDTD method using parallel process for the study of antennas. The obtained system efficiency is then tested in the analysis of a monopole antenna, what is done by comparing the time spent in the parallel and serial processing.
Keywords :
antenna testing; electromagnetism; finite difference time-domain analysis; monopole antennas; parallel processing; Beowulf cluster; FDTD; FDTD method; antenna testing; electromagnetism; finite difference time domain method; monopole antenna; parallel processing; process time; serial processing; Broadband antennas; Concurrent computing; Difference equations; Electromagnetic analysis; Feeds; Finite difference methods; Maxwell equations; System testing; Telephony; Time domain analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Electromagnetics and Communications, 2003. ICECom 2003. 17th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
953-6037-39-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICECOM.2003.1291046
