Solution of large-scale scattering problems with the multilevel fast multipole algorithm parallelized on distributed-memory architectures

Abstract

We present the solution of large-scale scattering problems involving three-dimensional closed conducting objects with arbitrary shapes. With an efficient parallelization of the multilevel fast multipole algorithm on relatively inexpensive computational platforms using distributed-memory architectures, we perform the iterative solution of integral-equation formulations that are discretized with tens of millions of unknowns. In addition to canonical problems, we also present the solution of real-life problems involving complicated targets with large dimensions. © 2007 IEEE.