MIXED ELEMENT FORMULATION FOR THE FINITE ELEMENT-BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHOD
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MIXED ELEMENT FORMULATION FOR THE FINITE ELEMENT-BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHODAbstract
A mixed element approach using right hexahedral elements and right prism elements for the finite element-boundary integral method is presented and discussed for the study of planar cavity-backed antennas. The mixed element method is shown to decrease the required computation time for geometrically constrained geometries by reducing the unknown count on the open aperture on the cavity. By reducing the unknown count on the surface, the memory and computational cost associated with the boundary integral portion of the solution is decreased versus solutions using only prism elements. The accuracy of the mixed element approach is shown to be comparable with that of a single element approach, especially for far field parameters such as radiation pattern and radar cross section.
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