An efficient adaptive h‐refinement for the RWG‐based electric field integral equation applied to antennas with waveport

Abstract

Abstract An approximation scheme that combines approximate solutions with error estimators to accelerate the adaptive h‐refinement of the RWG‐based method of moments (MoM) with the electric field integral equation (EFIE) is presented. The scheme is effectively implemented by using the near‐field matrix to solve the approximate solution. Several conventional error estimators incorporated with the scheme are investigated. Compared to using the full MoM system, it significantly reduces the computational cost while maintaining the refinement effect. Numerical results indicate that the scheme could accelerate the adaptive refinement, yielding significant reductions in computational time and memory requirements.

Keywords

• electric field integral equations
• method of moments