An Effective Multigrid Preconditioned CG Algorithm for Millimeter Wave Scattering by an Infinite Plane Metallic Grating

An effective multigrid based preconditioned conjugate gradient method is developed to solve electromagnetic large matrix problem for millimeter wave scattering application. By using multigrid technique we restrict the large matrix equation to a relative smaller matrix and which can be solved rapidly. The solution is prolonged as the initial guess for the conjugate gradient (CG) method. Numerical results show that our developed method can reach five times improvement of computational complexity.     

Millimeter Wave Scattering of 2-D Frequency Selective Surface by Efficient Method of Lines with Preconditioned CG Technique

In this paper, both banded and symmetric successive overrelaxation (SSOR) preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) techniques are combined with method of lines (MOL) to further enhance the computational efficiency of this semi-analytic method. The electromagnetic wave scattering of 2-D frequency-selective surface is used as the examples to describe its implementation, whose analysis usually needs fast algorithms because of electrically large dimension. For arbitrary incident wave, helmholtz equation and boundary condition are used to calculate the impedance matrix and then to obtain reduced current-voltage linear matrix equation in spatial domain. Both banded and effective symmetric successive overrelaxation preconditioned conjugate gradient iterative method are chosen to solve this matrix equation. Our numerical results show that PCG methods can converge to accurate solution in much fewer iteration steps for analysis of the electromagnetic wave scattering from 2-D frequency-selective surface.     

Analysis of Millimeter Wave Scattering by the Infinite Plane Metallic Grating Using PCG-FFT Technique

In this paper, both fast Fourier transformation (FFT) and preconditioned CG technique are introduced into method of lines (MOL) to further enhance the computational efficiency of this semi-analytic method. Electromagnetic wave scattering by an infinite plane metallic grating is used as the examples to describe its implementation. For arbitrary incident wave, Helmholz equation and boundary condition are first transformed into new ones so that the impedance matrix elements are calculated by FFT technique. As a result, this Topelitz impedance matrix only requires O(N) memory storage for the conjugate gradient FFT method to solve the current distribution with the computational complexity O(N log N) . Our numerical results show that circulate matrix preconditioner can speed up CG-FFT method to converge in much smaller CPU time than the banded matrix preconditioner.     

Application of Robust Incomplete Cholesky Factorizations Preconditioned CG Algorithms for FEM Analysis of Millimeter Wave Filters

The Incomplete Cholesky factorizations preconditioning scheme is applied to the conjugate gradient (CG) method for solving a large system of linear equations resulting from finite element method (FEM) analysis of millimeter wave filters. As is well known, the convergence of CG method deteriorates with increasing EM wave number and in millimeter wave band the eigen-values of A are more and more scattered between both the right and the left half-plane. The efficient implementation of this preconditioned CG (PCG) algorithm is described in details for Complex coefficient matrix. With incomplete factorization preconditioning scheme in the conjugate gradient algorithm, this PCG approach can reach convergence in 20 times CPU time shorter than CG for several typical millimeter wave structures.     

Application of SSOR Preconditioning Technique to Method of Lines for Millimeter Wave Scattering

In this paper, symmetric successive overrelaxation (SSOR) preconditioned CG technique are introduced into method of lines (MOL) to further enhance the computational efficiency of this semi-analytic method. Millimeter wave scattering by an infinite plane metallic grating is used as the examples to describe its implementation, whose analysis usually needs fast algorithms because of electrically large dimension. For arbitrary incident wave, Helmholz equation and boundary condition are used to calculate the impedance matrix and then to obtain reduced current-voltage linear matrix equation in spatial domain. An effective symmetric successive overrelaxation preconditioned conjugate gradient iterative method, SSOR-PCG, is chosen to solve this matrix equation. With SSOR as the preconditioner as well as its efficient implementing in CG algorithm, PCG method can converge to accurate solution in much fewer iteration steps.     

Parameters Extraction of Millimeter Wave Circuits by Hybrid Vector Finite Element and Moment Method Combined with SOC Technique

This paper presents a hybrid method, which couples the vector finite element method (FEM) and method of moment (MOM) for analyzing the field and current distribution of the millimeter wave circuits. The FEM is applied to handle the interior region of dielectric bodies and MOM is used to solve surface integral equations. Then, These integral expressions are coupled into the FEM equations through the continuity of the tangential fields across the connection boundaries. Simultaneously, the short-open calibration (SOC) technique is used for predicting accurately the scattering parameters of the circuits. Numerical results are well compared with those published in the previous literatures.     

Analysis of Millimeter Wave Power Density Received by Cell Monolayers Inside Culture Dishes

One sort of experiment concerning biological effects of millimeter waves (MMWs) at the cellular level is performed using a culture dish containing a cell monolayer with MMW irradiated from the underneath. For culture dishes with diameters much larger than the wavelength, analysis is carried out with respect to the relationship between the portion of the incident MMW power density (PD) received by the cell monolayer and influencing factors such as the culture dish bottom thickness, MMW wavelength, and the electromagnetic properties of the dish and culture solution. Another analysis is conducted by the FDTD method to reveal the effect of culture dish configuration on MMW PD received by the cell monolayer in a typical culture dish with a diameter not much longer than the wavelength. With the illustrated results, the conclusion is reached that rigorous analysis, precise measurement and accurate calculation of MMW PD should accompany such experiments, and large-diameter culture dishes are more preferred in experiments to small-caliber dishes.