An efficient marching-on-in-degree solution of transient multiscale EM scattering problems

Abstract

A marching-on-in-degree (MOD)-based time-domain domain decomposition method is proposed to efficiently analyze the transient electromagnetic scattering from electrically large multiscale targets. The algorithm starts with an octree that divides the whole scattering target into several subdomains. Then using the equivalence principle algorithm, each subdomain is enclosed by an equivalence sphere (ES), where both the RWG and BoR spatial basis functions are employed to expand the unknown currents. The interactions of the near-field subdomains are directly calculated by the method of moments, while the far-field interactions can be converted into the interactions of corresponding ESs. This scheme implicitly satisfies the current continuity condition, and the convergence can be accelerated as well. By harnessing the rotational symmetry of the ESs, the computational resources are reduced significantly compared with the traditional MOD method. Several numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed algorithm. © 2016 IEEE.