Fast Calderón Preconditioning for the Electric Field Integral Equation

Despite its solid mathematical background, the standard Calderón preconditioning for the electric field integral equation scales poorly with respect to the mesh refinement due to its construction over barycentric meshes. Based on hierarchical matrices, our proposed algorithm optimally splits solutio...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation 2019-04, Vol.67 (4), p.2555-2564
Main Authors: Escapil-Inchauspe, Paul, Jerez-Hanckes, Carlos
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Antennas
Boundary element methods (BEMs)
boundary integral equations
Computer memory
electric field integral equation (EFIE)
Electric fields
fast solvers
Grid refinement (mathematics)
Integral equations
Mathematical analysis
Matrix decomposition
Matrix methods
Memory management
Preconditioning
Sparse matrices
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Summary:Despite its solid mathematical background, the standard Calderón preconditioning for the electric field integral equation scales poorly with respect to the mesh refinement due to its construction over barycentric meshes. Based on hierarchical matrices, our proposed algorithm optimally splits solution and preconditioner accuracies, significantly reducing computation times and memory requirements while retaining the good properties of the original Calderón preconditioner. Numerical experiments validate our claims for increasingly complex settings, yielding results comparable to those given by algebraic techniques such as near-field preconditioners and providing insights into further research avenues.
ISSN:0018-926X
1558-2221
DOI:10.1109/TAP.2019.2891608