# Proceedings of the IEEE

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• ### Front cover

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s): C1
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• ### Proceedings of the IEEE publication information

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s): C2
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Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):217 - 219
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• ### The motivation and technique of writing scientific contributions [Point of View]

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):220 - 222
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• ### Large-Scale Electromagnetic Computation for Modeling and Applications [Scanning the Issue]

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):223 - 226
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• ### Overview of Large-Scale Computing: The Past, the Present, and the Future

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):227 - 241
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This is a brief review of the development of computational electromagnetics (CEM) to partially summarize its achievements, issues, and possibilities. View full abstract»

• ### Discontinuous Galerkin Time-Domain Methods for Multiscale Electromagnetic Simulations: A Review

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):242 - 254
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Efficient multiscale electromagnetic simulations require several major challenges that need to be addressed, such as flexible and robust geometric modeling schemes, efficient and stable time-stepping methods, etc. Due to the versatile choices of spatial discretization and temporal integration, discontinuous Galerkin time-domain (DGTD) methods can be very promising in simulating transient multiscal... View full abstract»

• ### Electromagnetic Computation in Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves by Random Rough Surface and Dense Media in Microwave Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):255 - 279
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Active and passive microwave remote sensing has been used for monitoring the soil moisture and snow water equivalent. In the interactions of microwaves with bare soil, the effects are determined by scattering of electromagnetic waves by random rough surfaces. In the interactions of microwaves with terrestrial snow, the effects are determined by volume scattering of dense media characterized by den... View full abstract»

• ### Integration of Antennas Onboard Vehicles and Diffraction by Large and Complex Structures With Multiple-Domain–Multiple-Methods Techniques

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):280 - 297
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In this paper, we present a review of recent developments achieved in a multiple-domain-multiple-method calculation methodology in the frequency domain for the prediction of airborne antenna radiation and the diffraction of large targets. Furthermore, special attention is paid both to proposing a consistent and collaborative calculation procedure that ensures that industrial confidentiality is pro... View full abstract»

• ### Nonconformal Domain Decomposition Methods for Solving Large Multiscale Electromagnetic Scattering Problems

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):298 - 319
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In this paper, we present our efforts in combating a challenging large multiscale electromagnetic scattering problem, viz. a plane-wave scattering from a mockup partially coated composite jet aircraft at X-band. We first summarize the application of the newly developed integral equation domain decomposition method (IE-DDM) to compute the plane-wave scattering from the jet aircraft, however with ne... View full abstract»

• ### Hybrid Iterative Approach Combined With Domain Decomposition for the Analysis of Large Electromagnetic Problems

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):320 - 331
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In this paper, we propose a technique for the electromagnetic analysis of large objects considering the interactions between separate parts of the geometry (which in this context will be referred to as domains). A number of unknowns is associated to each domain, and only the basis functions included within the same domain are considered fully coupled (i.e., a full-wave analysis is performed for ev... View full abstract»

• ### Hierarchical parallelization of the multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA)

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):332 - 341
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Due to its O(N log N) complexity, the multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) is one of the most prized algorithms of computational electromagnetics and certain other disciplines. Various implementations of this algorithm have been used for rigorous solutions of large-scale scattering, radiation, and miscellaneous other electromagnetics problems involving 3-D objects with ... View full abstract»

• ### Accurate solutions of extremely large integral-equation problems in computational electromagnetics

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):342 - 349
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Accurate simulations of real-life electromagnetics problems with integral equations require the solution of dense matrix equations involving millions of unknowns. Solutions of these extremely large problems cannot be achieved easily, even when using the most powerful computers with state-of-the-art technology. However, with the multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) and parallel MLFMA, we hav... View full abstract»

• ### MLFMA-FFT Parallel Algorithm for the Solution of Extremely Large Problems in Electromagnetics

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):350 - 363
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An efficient parallel implementation of the multilevel fast multipole algorithm-fast Fourier transform (MLFMA-FFT) has been successfully used to solve an electromagnetic problem involving one billion of unknowns, which indeed becomes the largest problem solved with the surface integral-equation approach up to now. In this paper, we present a deep review of this challenging execution, focusing on t... View full abstract»

• ### Accelerated Direct Solution of the Method-of-Moments Linear System

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):364 - 371
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This paper addresses the direct (noniterative) solution of the method-of-moments (MoM) linear system, accelerated through block-wise compression of the MoM impedance matrix. Efficient matrix block compression is achieved using the adaptive cross-approximation (ACA) algorithm and the truncated singular value decomposition (SVD) postcompression. Subsequently, a matrix decomposition is applied that p... View full abstract»

• ### Direct Matrix Solution of Linear Complexity for Surface Integral-Equation-Based Impedance Extraction of Complicated 3-D Structures

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):372 - 388
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We develop a linear-complexity direct matrix solution for the surface integral equation (IE)-based impedance extraction of arbitrarily shaped 3-D nonideal conductors embedded in a dielectric material. A direct inverse of a highly irregular system matrix composed of both dense and sparse matrix blocks is obtained in O(N) complexity with N being the matrix size. It outperforms s... View full abstract»

• ### Quasi-Block-Cholesky Factorization With Dynamic Matrix Compression for Fast Integral-Equation Simulations of Large-Scale Human Body Models

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):389 - 400
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In this paper, a fast direct integral-equation method for simulating human models is presented. Based on the mixed symmetric and skew-symmetric pattern of the impedance matrix, a quasi-block-Cholesky (QBC) algorithm was proposed to reduce both the memory and central processing unit (CPU) time for matrix factorization by half. Dynamic matrix compression via single-level adaptive cross approximation... View full abstract»

• ### Modified Phase-Extracted Basis Functions for Efficient Analysis of Scattering From Electrically Large Targets

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):401 - 413
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In this paper, phase-extracted (MPE) basis functions with both the traveling wave terms and the standing wave terms have been proposed to analyze the scattering from the electrically large targets. This kind of basis functions, called modified phase-extracted (MPE) basis function, can be defined on the relatively large patches and constructed with the higher order hierarchical vector basis functio... View full abstract»

• ### Analyzing Large-Scale Arrays Using Tangential Equivalence Principle Algorithm With Characteristic Basis Functions

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):414 - 422
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In this paper, the tangential equivalence principle algorithm (T-EPA) combined with characteristic basis functions (CBFs) is presented to analyze the electromagnetic scattering of large-scale antenna arrays. The T-EPA is a kind of domain decomposition scheme for the electromagnetic scattering and radiation problems based on integral equation (IE). CBFs are macrobasis functions which are constructe... View full abstract»

• ### Hierarchical Matrix Preconditioning for Low-Frequency–Full-Maxwell Simulations

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):423 - 433
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In this paper, we propose to use hierarchical matrices as fast and robust preconditioners for a recent formulation of Maxwell's equations. This formulation was introduced by Hiptmair (IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 682-685, Jun. 2008) and remains stable in the stationary limit for nonconductive domains. The preconditioner is constructed based on a decoupling of the magnetic and electric po... View full abstract»

• ### Electromagnetic Field Theory in $(N+1)$ -Space-Time: A Modern Time-Domain Tensor/Array Introduction

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):434 - 450
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In this paper, a modern time-domain introduction is presented for electromagnetic field theory in (N+1)-space-time. It uses a consistent tensor/array notation that accommodates the description of electromagnetic phenomena in N-dimensional space (plus time), a requirement that turns up in present-day theoretical cosmology, where a unified theory of electromagnetic and gravitational ph... View full abstract»

• ### Skin-Effect Loss Models for Time- and Frequency-Domain PEEC Solver

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):451 - 472
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A challenging and interesting issue for the solution of large electromagnetic problems is the efficient, sufficiently accurate modeling of the broadband skin-effect loss for conducting planes and 3-D shapes. The inclusion of such models in an electromagnetic (EM) solver can be very costly in compute time and memory requirements. These issues are particularly important for the class of signal, powe... View full abstract»

• ### Spectral Methods and Domain Decomposition for Nanophotonic Applications

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):473 - 483
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Nanophotonic applications often involve large-scale problems with excessive demand on computational resources. We develop a domain decomposition method (DDM) to reduce computer memory and central processing unit (CPU) time requirements by combining the spectral element method (SEM) and the spectral integral method (SIM) for large-scale finite periodic structures. The interior scattering subdomains... View full abstract»

• ### Highly Tailored Computational Electromagnetics Methods for Nanophotonic Design and Discovery

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):484 - 493
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The use of computational electromagnetics (CEM) techniques has greatly advanced nanophotonics. The applications of nanophotonics in turn motivates the development of efficient highly tailored algorithms for specific application domains. In this paper, we will discuss some specific considerations in seeking to advance CEM for nanophotonic design and discovery, with examples drawn from the design of... View full abstract»

• ### Water Bridges in Electropermeabilized Phospholipid Bilayers

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):494 - 504
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Pulsed electric field permeabilization of living cell membranes forms the basis for widely used biotechnology protocols and an increasing number of therapeutic applications. Experimental observations of artificial membranes and whole cells and molecular and analytical models provide evidence that a membrane-spanning, hydrophilic, conductive pore can form in nanoseconds. An external electric field ... View full abstract»

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H. Joel Trussell
North Carolina State University