Electromagnetic integral equations: Insights in conditioning and preconditioning

SB Adrian, A Dely, D Consoli, A Merlini… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integral equation formulations are a competitive strategy in computational electromagnetics
but, lamentably, are often plagued by ill-conditioning and by related numerical instabilities …

On a refinement-free Calderón multiplicative preconditioner for the electric field integral equation

SB Adrian, FP Andriulli, TF Eibert - Journal of Computational Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
We present a Calderón preconditioner for the electric field integral equation (EFIE), which
does not require a barycentric refinement of the mesh and which yields a Hermitian, positive …

On preconditioners of the FFT-JVIE for inhomogeneous dielectric objects

SZ Gu, L Zhang, DM Yu, KW Xu, LM Si… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An improved block-diagonal preconditioner (IBDP) is developed for the fast Fourier
transform (FFT) accelerated the volume integral equation formulation based on equivalent …

Fast solvers for charge distribution models on shared memory platforms

KA O'Hearn, A Alperen, HM Aktulga - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2020 - SIAM
Including atom polarizability in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is important for high-
fidelity simulations. Linear solvers for charge models that are used to dynamically determine …

Parallelization of the inverse fast multipole method with an application to boundary element method

T Takahashi, C Chen, E Darve - Computer Physics Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
We present an algorithm to parallelize the inverse fast multipole method (IFMM), which is an
approximate direct solver for dense linear systems. The parallel scheme is based on a …

Sparse approximate inverse preconditioner for multiscale dynamic electromagnetic problems

XM Pan, XQ Sheng - Radio Science, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The inherent difficulties of traditional preconditioning techniques are revealed by
numerically analyzing characteristics of method of moments systems with respect to …

A hierarchical preconditioner for the electric field integral equation on unstructured meshes based on primal and dual Haar bases

SB Adrian, FP Andriulli, TF Eibert - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
A new hierarchical basis preconditioner for the electric field integral equation (EFIE)
operator is introduced. In contrast to existing hierarchical basis preconditioners, it works on …

Preconditioning for large-scale boundary integral equations in electromagnetics [open problems in CEM]

B Carpentieri - IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The boundary-element method is a popular approach for solving electromagnetic
applications. It can reduce a three-dimensional problem to solving a two-dimensional …

Rapidly converging boundary integral equation solvers in computational electromagnetics

S Adrian - 2018 - theses.hal.science
The electric field integral equation (EFIE) and the combined field integral equation (CFIE)
suffer from the dense-discretization and the low-frequency breakdown: if the average …

A hybrid recursive multilevel incomplete factorization preconditioner for solving general linear systems

Y Bu, B Carpentieri, Z Shen, TZ Huang - Applied Numerical Mathematics, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper we introduce an algebraic recursive multilevel incomplete factorization
preconditioner, based on a distributed Schur complement formulation, for solving general …