Accurate modeling of metamaterials with MLFMA

Özgür Ergül*, Alper Ünal, Levent Gürel

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Abstract

Electromagnetic modelling of large metamaterial (MM) structures employing multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) is reported. MMs are usually constructed by periodically embedding unit cells, such as split-ring resonators (SRRs), into a host medium. Without utilizing any homogenization techniques, we accurately model large numbers of unit cells that translate into very large computational problems. By considering all of the electromagnetic interactions, the resulting dense matrix equations are solved iteratively with the accelerated matrix-vector products by MLFMA. To increase the efficiency, we also employ parallel computing in the solutions of large SRR problems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of The European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
Subtitle of host publicationEuCAP 2006
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2006
Externally publishedYes
EventEuropean Conference on Antennas and Propagation: EuCAP 2006 - Nice, France
Duration: 6 Nov 200610 Nov 2006

Publication series

NameEuropean Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Volume626 SP
ISSN (Print)0379-6566

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Conference on Antennas and Propagation: EuCAP 2006
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNice
Period6/11/0610/11/06

Keywords

  • Metamaterials
  • Multi-level fast multipole algorithm
  • Split-ring resonator

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