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

fYear

2003

fDate

1-3 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

437

Lastpage

440

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics and Communications, 2003. ICECom 2003. 17th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

953-6037-39-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECOM.2003.1291046

Filename

1291046