Electromagnetic Scattering From Electrically Large Arbitrarily-Shaped Conductors Using the Method of Moments and a New Null-Field Generation Technique

Abstract

In this work, a new numerical procedure is developed to apply the well-known method of moments (MoM) formulation to electrically large conducting bodies of arbitrary shape. The numerical procedure involves developing a combination of subdomain-entire domain basis functions which result in a sparse moment matrix as opposed to a full matrix in the traditional method. Moreover, the zeros in the MoM matrix are precisely at the same locations where one would have encountered the most significant values. The solution of the new matrix may be obtained using the simple Gauss-Seidel iterative procedure with only two or three iterations. All the traditional advantages of the MoM procedure are retained including the solution for multiple incident fields. Several numerical results are presented to illustrate the validity of the new approach.