Comparative Analysis of Different Preconditioning Methods in Electromagnetic Scattering Problems using MoM-FMM

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EFIE MoM FMM iLU SPAI GMRES RCSVV

Abstract

The numerical solution of the electric field integral equation in electromagnetic scattering problems involving metallic bodies, using the method of moments in conjunction with the fast multipole method, gives rise a full matrix with highly spread complex eigenvalues and consequently with a low condition number. Thus, iterative methods may not converge or it will require an extremely large number of iterations, which make this strategy unfeasible due to the high solution time and the expensive computational resources required. To overcome this drawback, the system matrix must be preconditioned to ensure the convergence in a reasonable number of iterations and with appropriate accuracy. In this work, some preconditioning techniques are revised and applied to a linear equation system derived from such type of problems, and the performance of these preconditioners is estimated and analyzed comparatively using the generalized minimal residual iterative method.

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Author Biographies

Paulino Del Pino, Laboratorio de Electromagnetismo Apicado LABEMA, Fcaultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Carabobo

Paulino Del Pino received the BSc. degree in Electrical Engineer, in 1988, and MSEE. in Electrical Engineering on Telecommunications research area, in 2004, from the University of Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela. Since 1988 he has worked in different projects in the area of electrical-electronics engineering and telecommunications engineering, both in the private sector and at the University of Carabobo, Venezuela. He is a full professor at the School of Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Carabobo and his areas of interest in the research are: estimation of SAR and RCS of arbitrary geometry and constitution bodies using MoM and FDTD for applications in microwave imaging and determination of the thermal response of human biological tissue to microwave radiation for medical applications. Optimal estimation of RCS using MoM and MLFMM. Design, construction and characterization of RF and microwave circuits. Design, construction and characterization of antennas. Estimation of coverage and propagation studies in AM / FM broadcasting, and broadcasting in the UHF band

Alfonso Zozaya, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Facultad de Ingeniería, Departamento de Electricidad

A. J. Zozaya received the B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering, with a major in Telecommunication, from the Polytechnic Institute of the National Armed Forces of Venezuela (I.U.P.F.A.N.), Maracay, Venezuela, in 1991, and his PhD degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in the area of Signal Theory and Communications in 2002. He worked as a Professor at the University of Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela from 1994 to 2014. He worked as a senior researcher at the Ecuadorian Space Institute, Quito, Ecuador, in the area of synthetic aperture radars in the periods from September 2014 to September 2015 and from August 2016 to August 2017. Currently, he is with the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago de Chile, where he works as a Full Professor at the Department of Electricity. His research areas of interest are applied electromagnetic, computational electromagnetic, digital signal processing, RF circuits design, antenna engineering, synthetic aperture radars, and UWB radars.

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Published

2021-03-16

How to Cite

Del Pino, P., & Zozaya, A. (2021). Comparative Analysis of Different Preconditioning Methods in Electromagnetic Scattering Problems using MoM-FMM. IEEE Latin America Transactions, 19(7), 1164–1171. Retrieved from https://latamt.ieeer9.org/index.php/transactions/article/view/4214