MONURBS: A Parallelized Fast Multipole Multilevel Code Analyzing Complex Bodies Modeled by NURBS Surfaces
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MONURBS: A Parallelized Fast Multipole Multilevel Code Analyzing Complex Bodies Modeled by NURBS SurfacesAbstract
This paper presents a Parallelized Multilevel
Fast Multipole (MLFMA) Moment Method (MoM) code
for analyzing the scattering and radiation from
electrically large complex bodies modeled by Non-
Uniform Rational B-Spline Surfaces (NURBS). The
bodies are represented by NURBS surfaces which are
discretized without remeshing the original geometry. The
basis and testing functions are defined and conformed to
the exact representation of the geometry. This code has
been parallelized using Message Passing Interface (MPI)
and it has been successfully applied to the study of large
bodies including complex and periodic multilayer
structures where the real size and shape are very
important.
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