RCS and antenna modeling with MOM using hybrid meshes
- McDonnell Douglas Corp., St. Louis, MO (United States)
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
In this presentation, the authors will investigate the use of hybrid meshes for modeling RCS and antenna problems in three dimensions. They will consider two classes of hybrid basis functions. These include combinations of quadrilateral and triangular meshes for arbitrary 3D geometries, and combinations of axisymmetric body-of-revolution (BOR) basis functions and triangular facets. In particular, they will focus on the problem of enforcing current continuity between two surfaces which are represented by different types of surface discretizations and unknown basis function representations. They will illustrate the use of an operator-based code architecture for the implementation of these formulations, and how it facilitates the incorporation of the various types of boundary conditions in the code. Both serial and parallel code implementation issues for the formulations will be discussed. Results will be presented for both scattering and antenna problems. The emphasis will be on accuracy, and robustness of the techniques. Comparisons of accuracy between triangular meshed and quadrilateral meshed geometries will be shown. The use of hybrid meshes for modeling BORs with attached appendages will also be presented.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 453501
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-97-0216C; CONF-970356-1; ON: DE97002533; TRN: AHC29707%%71
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 13. annual review of progress in applied computational electromagnetics, Monterey, CA (United States), 17-21 Mar 1997; Other Information: PBD: [1997]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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