The Adaptive Cross Approximation Technique for a Volume Integral Equation Method Applied to Nonlinear Magnetostatic Problems

Volume integral equation methods are particularly well suited to solve electromagnetic problems, where the air domain is predominant. However, their use leads to the heavy resolution of a dense matrix system. The Adaptive Cross Approximation (ACA) combined with hierarchical matrices (H-matrices) decomposition is an algebraic method allowing the compression of fully populated matrices. This paper presents the ACA technique applied to a volume integral equation to solve nonlinear magnetostatic problems.