Performance Evaluation of a Parallel Fast Multipole Accelerated Boundary Integral Equation Method in Electrostatic Field Analysis

Author

Takahashi, Yasuhito ; Iwashita, Takeshi ; Nakashima, Hiroshi ; Wakao, Shinji ; Fujiwara, Koji ; Ishihara, Yoshiyuki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Doshisha Univ., Kyoto, Japan

Volume

47

Issue

5

fYear

2011

fDate

5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1174

Lastpage

1177

Abstract

This paper investigates the scalability of a parallel fast multipole accelerated boundary integral equation method in electrostatic field analyses. A load balancing technique suitable for highly parallel computation with 100 or more processes, which is a domain decomposition method based on octree structure in the FMM, is also proposed. Numerical results clarify the effectiveness of the developed method in practical models with complicated geometry.

Keywords

boundary integral equations; computational electromagnetics; electric fields; octrees; parallel processing; resource allocation; wires (electric); bare strand wire; domain decomposition method; electrostatic field analyses; human-shaped conductors; load balancing technique; octree structure; parallel computation; parallel fast multipole accelerated boundary integral equation method; performance evaluation; scalability; Computational efficiency; Conductors; Electrostatics; Integral equations; Load management; Octrees; Wire; Boundary integral equation method; fast multipole method; load balancing; parallel computing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2010.2088380

Filename

5754778