Performance comparison between two commercial EM softwares using higher order and piecewise RWG basis functions

Abstract

AbstractIn this article, numerical result obtained using two different commercially available electromagnetic (EM) codes based on an integral equation method are presented. One of the methods solves the integral equation by the method of moments (MoM) using higher order basis functions (the commercially available parallel software named TIDES), and the other one solves the integral equation by MoM with a multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) incorporating the RWG basis functions (the commercially available software FEKO). Numerical results indicate that the integral equation solver with higher order basis functions occupies less than 40% of the RAM and the execution time is significantly less when compared with that of using the RWG basis functions along with MLFMA. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 1219–1225, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.24271