Solution of large-scale scattering problems with the multilevel fast multipole algorithm parallelized on distributed-memory architectures

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2007-11-09
We present the solution of large-scale scattering problems involving three-dimensional closed conducting objects with arbitrary shapes. With an efficient parallelization of the multilevel fast multipole algorithm on relatively inexpensive computational platforms using distributed-memory architectures, we perform the iterative solution of integral-equation formulations that are discretized with tens of millions of unknowns. In addition to canonical problems, we also present the solution of real-life problems involving complicated targets with large dimensions.

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Ö. S. Ergül, “Solution of large-scale scattering problems with the multilevel fast multipole algorithm parallelized on distributed-memory architectures,” 2007, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41343.