A Calderón multiplicative preconditioner for coupled surface-volume electric field integral equations

Abstract
A well-conditioned coupled set of surface (S) and volume (V) electric field integral equations (S-EFIE and V-EFIE) for analyzing wave interactions with densely discretized composite structures is presented. Whereas the V-EFIE operator is well-posed even when applied to densely discretized volumes, a classically formulated S-EFIE operator is ill-posed when applied to densely discretized surfaces. This renders the discretized coupled S-EFIE and V-EFIE system ill-conditioned, and its iterative solution inefficient or even impossible. The proposed scheme regularizes the coupled set of S-EFIE and V-EFIE using a Calderón multiplicative preconditioner (CMP)-based technique. The resulting scheme enables the efficient analysis of electromagnetic interactions with composite structures containing fine/subwavelength geometric features. Numerical examples demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed scheme. © 2006 IEEE.

Citation
Bağci, H., Andriulli, F. P., Cools, K., Olyslager, F., & Michielssen, E. (2010). A Calderón Multiplicative Preconditioner for Coupled Surface-Volume Electric Field Integral Equations. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 58(8), 2680–2690. doi:10.1109/tap.2010.2050419

Acknowledgements
This work was supported in part by AFOSR MURI Grant F014432-051936 aimed at modeling installed antennas and their feeds and in part by NSF Grant DMS 0713771.

Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

DOI
10.1109/TAP.2010.2050419

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