Fast calculation of RCS over a broad frequency band using FDM and AWE technique

The fast dipole method (FDM) in conjunction with the asymptotic waveform evaluation (AWE) technique is presented for fast calculation of radar cross section (RCS) from arbitrarily shaped perfect electric conductor targets over a broad frequency band. The FDM, which is based on the equivalent dipole-moment (EDM) method, is employed to reduce impedance matrix storage and accelerate the matrix-vector multiplications in the solutions of the Taylor coefficients. The application of AWE technique enables fast frequency sweep analysis. The numerical results show that this method greatly increased the computational efficiency without losing accuracy conditions compared with the traditional method of moments (MoM) combined with AWE technique.