Fast multipole method for 3D electromagnetic boundary integral equations. Application to non destructive testing on complex 3D geometries

Tekoing Lim, Gregoire Pichenot, Marc Bonnet

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Abstract

The motivation of this work is to develop a computational treatment of eddy current simulation applicable to complex 3D geometries. To this end, an approach based on surface integral equations and involving the homogeneous full-space Green's function and dyad is developed. A Galerkin variant of the method of moments, using bilinear basis functions, is employed for discretizing the surface integral equations, leading to a linear system. Solving the linear system using a direct matrix solver is prohibitively expensive in computing time and memory resources. This difficulty is circumvented by using an iterative solver (typically GMRES) together with the Fast Multipole Method (FMM). The response of an eddy current probe is finally expressed with the Auld reciprocity theorem.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationElectromagnetic Nondestructive Evaluation (XIV)
EditorsTomasz Chady, Stanislaw Gratkowski, Toshiyuki Takagi, Satish S. Udpa
Pages79-86
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2011
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameStudies in Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics
Volume35
ISSN (Print)1383-7281
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8322

Keywords

  • Fast Multipole Method
  • Method of Moments
  • Singularity
  • Surface Integral Equations

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