Abstract :
The aim of this research work is to discuss the use of the diagonal representation (DR) for the construction of the macro-basis functions (MBFs) when applying the Characteristic Basis Function Method (CBFM) to the problem of modeling of scattering from forests. We have applied the CBFM to improve the performances of a previously studied 3D full-wave model in order to solve electrically large forest simulation scenes. This efficient domain decomposition method has shown good performance both in terms of CPU time and memory while achieving a satisfactory level of accuracy compared to that of a conventional Method of Moments (MoM). Therefore, it enables us to solve forest EM problems of upward of 2 million unknowns by consuming only a reasonable amount of CPU time and using just 48 GB of shared memory (Fenni I.; Roussel H.; Darces M.; Mittra R., AP IEEE Trans., 62–8, 4282–4291, 2014).
