Physics-Based High Performance Computing Using Higher-Order Methods for Broadband Applications in Computational Electromagnetics (CEM)

摘要

Under sponsorship from various Department of Defense (DoD) organizations and a cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Research Development and Engineering Command, Army Research Laboratory (RDECOM-ARL) HyPerComp has significantly advanced the state of the art of time- domain, and broad band electromagnetic simulations. The TEMPUS (Time-Domain ElectroMagnetic Parallel Unstructured Simulator) environment is a complete self contained code suite that includes computer aided design (CAD) geometry creation and repair unstructured gridding for fell-scale targets with general materials scalable parallel code architecture higher-order accurate discontinuous Galerkin solvers for Maxwell's equations and post processing utilities for solution visualization and exaction of final results like bistatic and monostatic radar cross section (RCS) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images and high-range-resolution (HRR) profiles. The high-performance TEMPUS environment is well suited for modeling a variety of targets and electromagnetic problems of interest to the U.S. Army such as: (1) high- speed projectiles with subtle surface discontinuities ridges and/or fins (2) ground- based targets such as tanks and scud missile launchers and (3) foliage penetration and ground interaction for target under trees (TUT). Some of the physics-based phenomenological features that govern the electromagnetic response of general targets are: (a) specular reflection; (b) creeping waves; (c) traveling waves; (d) slow moving surface waves; (e) edge diffraction; (f) singular currents at surface discontinuities; (g) resonating gaps and cavities; and (h) general material response.