A parallel implementation of the hybrid FDTD-BIE technique

Author

Rogier, H. ; De Zutter, D. ; Olyslager, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Belgium

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

16-21 July 2000

Firstpage

224

Abstract

A parallel implementation of a hybrid formalism that combines the finite-difference time-domain algorithm and the boundary integral equation technique is presented. The hybrid approach relies on a 3D boundary integral equation to model bounded and unbounded regions. For each inhomogeneous subregion an interaction matrix is calculated at multiple frequencies by performing a number of FDTD simulations. It is shown that the overall efficiency of the hybrid technique highly increases by fully performing these simulations in parallel.

Keywords

boundary integral equations; electrical engineering computing; electromagnetic wave scattering; finite difference time-domain analysis; frequency selective surfaces; inhomogeneous media; matrix algebra; microstrip antenna arrays; parallel algorithms; 3D boundary integral equation; EM plane wave scattering; FDTD simulations; FSS; bounded regions; efficiency; finite-difference time-domain algorithm; frequency selective surface; hybrid FDTD-BIE technique; inhomogeneous subregion; interaction matrix; parallel implementation; parallel simulations; patch antenna array; unbounded regions; Ambient intelligence; Computational modeling; Finite difference methods; Finite element methods; Frequency; Information technology; Integral equations; Magnetic fields; Time domain analysis; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2000. IEEE

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6369-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2000.873749

Filename

873749