Print Email Facebook Twitter Stability, Accuracy, and Robustness of the Time Domain Integral Equation Method for Radar Scattering Analysis Title Stability, Accuracy, and Robustness of the Time Domain Integral Equation Method for Radar Scattering Analysis Author Van 't Wout, E. Contributor Vuik, C. (promotor) Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics Date 2013-11-11 Abstract The aim of this thesis is to design a computational method that can be used in modern stealth technology. In particular, the computational method should be capable to simulate scattering of ultra-wideband radar signals for military aircraft constructed with ferromagnetic radar absorbent materials. A full-wave boundary element method has been chosen because of its efficiency for electromagnetic scattering of electrically large structures. A time-domain method has been chosen because wideband signals can be simulated with a single run. Moreover, the future use of nonlinear constitutive equations for ferromagnetic materials requires simulation in time domain. To this end, the Time Domain Integral Equation (TDIE) method is used as computational method. More specifically, the numerical discretization of the Electric Field Integral Equation (EFIE) is given by the Marching-on-in-Time (MoT) scheme, which has been chosen because of its efficiency and accuracy. Instabilities prevent its industrial application to stealth technology, even for smallband and linear constitutive equations. In this thesis, a thorough numerical analysis on stability, accuracy, and robustness has been derived, resulting in clear guidelines for the choice of numerical parameters. Consequently, stable computer simulations have been achieved. Subject radar scatteringcomputational electromagneticsboundary element methodintegral equation methodtime domainnumerical analysisstabilityaccuracyrobustness To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:25fbc401-50f7-42a5-ac2c-2b4e0e00dc10 Embargo date 2013-11-11 ISBN 9789462034631 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2013 Van 't Wout, E. Files PDF PhDthesisEvantWout.pdf 11.06 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:25fbc401-50f7-42a5-ac2c-2b4e0e00dc10/datastream/OBJ/view