Calderón Strategies for the Convolution Quadrature Time-Domain Electric Field Integral Equation

Abstract

In this work, we introduce new integral formulations based on the convolution quadrature method for the time-domain modeling of perfectly electrically conducting scatterers that overcome some of the most critical issues of the standard schemes based on the electric field integral equation (EFIE). The standard time-domain EFIE-based approaches typically yield matrices that become increasingly ill-conditioned as the time-step or the mesh discretization density increase and suffer from the well-known DC instability. This work presents solutions to these issues that are based both on new Calderón strategies and quasi-Helmholtz projectors regularizations. In addition, to ensure an efficient computation of the marching-on-in-time, the proposed schemes leverage properties of the Z-transform—involved in the convolution quadrature discretization scheme—when computing the stabilized operators. The two resulting formulations compare favorably with standard, well-established schemes. The properties and practical relevance of these new formulations will be showcased through relevant numerical examples that include canonical geometries and more complex structures.

Keywords

• Boundary element method
• Calderón preconditioning
• computational electromagnetic
• convolution quadrature method
• EFIE
• time-domain integral equations