RT Journal Article T1 Improving condition number and convergence of the surface integral-equation method of moments for penetrable bodies A1 Landesa Porras, Luis A1 Gómez Araújo, Marta A1 Taboada Varela, José Manuel A1 Bote, Luis A1 Obelleiro Basteiro, Fernando K1 3325.05 Radiocomunicaciones AB Most of the surface integral equation (SIE) formulations for composite conductor and/or penetrable objects suffer from balancing problems mainly because of the very different scales of the equivalent electric and magnetic currents. Consequently, the impedance matrix usually has high- or ill-condition number due to the imbalance between the different blocks. Using an efficient left and right preconditioner the elements of the impedance matrix are balanced. The proposed approach improves the matrix balance without modifying the underlying SIE formulation, which can be selected solely in terms of accuracy. The numerical complexity of this preconditioner is O(N) with N the number of unknowns, and it can be easily included on any existing SIE code implementation. PB Optics Express SN 10944087 YR 2012 FD 2012-07-13 LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/4366 UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/4366 LA eng NO Optics Express, 20(15): 17237-17249 (2012) NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación | Ref. TEC2011-28784-C02-01 DS Investigo RD 20-sep-2024