2009/08/05 by Michael Carley, Carley, Michael
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies #Antenna Design and Analysis #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #physics.comp-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0908.0673
Submitted to the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
arxiv created 2009/08/05 · openalex publication_date 2009/08/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The design, implementation and analysis of a free library for boundary element calculations is presented. The library is free in the sense of the GNU General Public Licence and is intended to allow users to solve a wide range of problems using the boundary element method. The library incorporates a fast multipole method which is tailored to boundary elements of order higher than zero, taking account of the finite extent of the elements in the generation of the domain tree. The method is tested on a sphere and on a cube, to test its ability to handle sharp edges, and is found to be accurate, efficient and convergent.