Efficient and Accurate Electromagnetic Angular Sweeping of Rough Surfaces by MPI Parallel Randomized Low-Rank Decomposition

Abstract

A message passing interface (MPI) parallel scheme on distributed memory platforms is developed for the low-rank decomposition to accommodate the memory requirement during angular sweeping of a rough surface in terms of tapered wave incidence. Numerical examples, including that conducted on a 160 × 160 square wavelength rough surface, are carried out to demonstrate the performance of the proposed MPI angular sweeping with respect to accuracy, efficiency, scalability, and the peak memory requirement.

Keywords

• Distributed memory parallel platform
• message passing interface (MPI) parallelization
• randomized low-rank decomposition
• rank deficiency