Efficient Computation of Scattering from Targets with Negative Impedance Surface

Current surface integral equations used for computing scattering from targets with negative impedance boundary condition（IBC）are not efficient.A modified surface dual integral equation（M-SDIE）for targets with negative IBC is presented.A pure imaginary number is used to balance the formulations.It is proved that the M-SDIE is accurate and efficient with three numerical examples.The first numerical example shows that the M-SDIE is accurate compared with Mie.The second example shows that the presented SIE is efficient.In the third example,a missile head is selected to present the computing power of the M-SDIE.All the examples show that the M-SDIE is an efficient algorithm for negative IBC.

An Alternative Method to Study Wave Scattering by Semi-infinite Inertial Surfaces

A new method to solve the boundary value problem arising in the study of scattering of two-dimensional surface water waves by a discontinuity in the surface boundary conditions is presented in this paper. The discontinuity arises due to the floating of two semi-infinite inertial surfaces of different surface densities. Applying Green＇s second identity to the potential functions and appropriate Green＇s functions, this problem is reduced to solving two coupled Fredholm integral equations with regular kernels. The solutions to these integral equations are used to determine the reflection and the transmission coefficients. The results for the reflection coefficient are presented graphically and are compared to those obtained earlier using other research methods. It is observed from the graphs that the results computed from the present analysis match exactly with the previous results.

Fast computation of scattering from 3D complex structures by MLFMA

This paper introduces the research work on the extension of multilevel fast multipole algorithm （MLFMA） to 3D complex structures including coating object, thin dielectric sheet, composite dielectric and conductor, cavity. The impedance boundary condition is used for scattering from the object coated by thin lossy material. Instead of volume integral equation, surface integral equation is applied in case of thin dielectric sheet through resistive sheet boundary condition. To realize the fast computation of scattering from composite homogeneous dielectric and conductor, the surface integral equation based on equivalence principle is used. Compared with the traditional volume integral equation, the surface integral equation reduces greatly the number of unknowns. To computc conducting cavity with electrically large aperture, an electric field integral equation is applied. Some numerical results are given to demonstrate the validity and accuracy of the present methods.

Efficient solution of 3D electromagnetic scattering from large homogeneous targets

Based on the combined tangential formulation of surface integral equation, a fast algo- rithm is presented for calculating electromagnetic scattering from electrically large 3D homogeneous objects. In the algorithm, the lower triangular approximate Schur preconditioner is combined with the multilevel fast multipole algorithm （MLFMA）. The coefficient matrix of the near-field coupling element is selected to set up the approximate matrix. For large problems, the incomplete LU factori- zation with dual threshold （ILUT） has better performance than sparse approximate inverse （SAI） of accelerating the convergence of the generalized minimal residual method （ GMRES ） iteration. Nu- merical experiments validate the efficiency and robustness of the presented fast algorithm for homo- geneous dielectric objects.

A Low Frequency Vector Fast Multipole Algorithm with Vector Addition Theorem

In the low-frequency fast multipole algorithm(LF-FMA)[19,20],scalar addition theorem has been used to factorize the scalar Green’s function.Instead of this traditional factorization of the scalar Green’s function by using scalar addition theorem,we adopt the vector addition theorem for the factorization of the dyadic Green’s function to realize memory savings.We are to validate this factorization and use it to develop a low-frequency vector fast multipole algorithm(LF-VFMA)for lowfrequency problems.In the calculation of non-near neighbor interactions,the storage of translators in the method is larger than that in the LF-FMA with scalar addition theorem.Fortunately it is independent of the number of unknowns.Meanwhile,the storage of radiation and receiving patterns is linearly dependent on the number of unknowns.Therefore it is worthwhile for large scale problems to reduce the storage of this part.In this method,the storage of radiation and receiving patterns can be reduced by 25 percent compared with the LF-FMA.