Double-Higher-Order Large-Domain Volume/Surface Integral Equation Method for Analysis of Composite Wire-Plate-Dielectric Antennas and Scatterers

A novel double-higher-order large-domain Galerkin-type method of moments based on higher order geometrical modeling and higher order current modeling is proposed for analysis of composite dielectric and metallic radiation/scattering structures combining the volume integral equation (VIE) approach for dielectric parts and the surface integral equation (SIE) approach for metallic parts of the structure. The technique employs Lagrange-type interpolation generalized hexahedra and quadrilaterals of arbitrary geometrical-mapping orders for the approximation of geometry and hierarchical divergence-conforming polynomial vector basis functions of arbitrary expansion orders for the approximation of currents within the elements. The double-higher-order VSIE (VIE-SIE) method is extensively validated and evaluated against the analytical solutions and the numerical results obtained by alternative higher order methods.