Iterative method of moments solution of problems involving electrically large and concave geometries

This paper presents a study of the scaling with frequency (computational complexity) of preconditioned iterative solution, using the Multilevel Fast Multipole Method, of a class of radiation and scattering problems that exhibits particularly slow convergence: problems involving electrically large, open and concave geometries. A comparison is presented between a well-known state of the art preconditioner (ILU) and a recently introduced preconditioning method, the Multiscale Compressed Block Decomposition.