Subdivision based isogeometric analysis technique for electric field integral equations for simply connected structures

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2016.04.008MaRDI QIDQ726872zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jie Li, Daniel Dault, Beibei Liu, Yiying Tong, S. Balasubramaniam

Publication date 5 December 2016

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.00876

zbMATH Keywords

electric field integral equationisogeometric analysiselectromagneticslow-frequency breakdownCalderón identity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Fredholm integral equations (45B05)

Abstract: The analysis of electromagnetic scattering has long been performed on a discrete representation of the geometry. This representation is typically continuous but {em not} differentiable. The need to define physical quantities on this geometric representation has led to development of sets of basis functions that need to satisfy constraints at the boundaries of the elements/tesselations (viz., continuity of normal or tangential components across element boundaries). For electromagnetics, these result in either curl/div-conforming basis sets. The geometric representation used for analysis is in stark contrast with that used for design, wherein the surface representation is higher order differentiable. Using this representation for {em both} geometry and physics on geometry has several advantages, and is eludicated in Hughes et al., Isogeometric analysis: CAD, finite elements, NURBS, exact geometry and mesh refinement, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 194 (39-41) (2005). Until now, a bulk of the literature on isogeometric methods have been limited to solid mechanics, with some effort to create NURBS based basis functions for electromagnetic analysis. In this paper, we present the first complete isogeometry solution methodology for the electric field integral equation as applied to simply connected structures. This paper systematically proceeds through surface representation using subdivision, definition of vector basis functions on this surface, to fidelity in the solution of integral equations. We also present techniques to stabilize the solution at low frequencies, and impose a Calder'{o}n preconditioner. Several results presented serve to validate the proposed approach as well as demonstrate some of its capabilities.

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