The CBFM-Enhanced Jacobi Method for Efficient Finite Antenna Array Analysis
Journal article, 2017

An enhancement to the iterative Jacobi technique with the characteristic basis function method is presented. The resulting method is intended for efficient method of moments (MoM)-based analysis of large, disjoint finite antenna arrays. The enhancement improves the convergence rate of the Jacobi method by better accounting for mutual coupling between array elements. This involves solving a small, global problem at each iterative step, using macrobasis functions that are iteratively generated. Results are presented, and it is found that the proposed method can recover fast convergence in cases where the Jacobi method diverges or converges slowly. The proposed method also converges significantly faster than a conventional, preconditioned, iterative solution of the MoM matrix equation.

iterative methods

electromagnetic integral equations

domain decomposition

computational electromagnetics

Array modeling

Author

Danie J. Ludick

Matthys Michiel Botha

Rob Maaskant

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

David B. Davidson

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

1536-1225 (ISSN) 15485757 (eISSN)

Vol. 16 2700-2703 8013686

Subject Categories

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2017.2742059

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