On the static loop modes in the marching-on-in-time solution of the time-domain electric field integral equation

Yifei Shi, Hakan Bagci, Mingyu Lu

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Abstract

When marching-on-in-time (MOT) method is applied to solve the time-domain electric field integral equation, spurious internal resonant and static loop modes are always observed in the solution. The internal resonant modes have recently been studied by the authors; this letter investigates the static loop modes. Like internal resonant modes, static loop modes, in theory, should not be observed in the MOT solution since they do not satisfy the zero initial conditions; their appearance is attributed to numerical errors. It is discussed in this letter that the dependence of spurious static loop modes on numerical errors is substantially different from that of spurious internal resonant modes. More specifically, when Rao-Wilton-Glisson functions and Lagrange interpolation functions are used as spatial and temporal basis functions, respectively, errors due to space-time discretization have no discernible impact on spurious static loop modes. Numerical experiments indeed support this discussion and demonstrate that the numerical errors due to the approximate solution of the MOT matrix system have dominant impact on spurious static loop modes in the MOT solution. © 2014 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)317-320
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume13
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant ECCS 1303142 and the Center for Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Science and Engineering at KAUST.

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  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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