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Abstract

Electromagnetic scattering problems involving inhomogeneous objects can be numerically solved by applying a method of moment's discretization to the hypersingular volume integral equation in which a grad-div operator acts on a vector potential. The vector potential is a spatial convolution of the free space Green's function and the contrast source over the domain of interest. For electrically large problems, the direct solution of the resulting linear system is expensive, both computationally and in memory use. Conventionally, the fast Fourier transform method (FFT) combined Krylov subspace iterative approaches are adopted. However, the uniform discretization required by FFT is not ideal for those problems involving inhomogeneous scatterers and sharp discontinuities. In this paper, a nonuniform FFT method combined weak form integral equation technique is presented. The method performs better in terms of speed and memory use than FFT on the configuration involving both the electrically large and fine structures. This is illustrated by a representative numerical test case.

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