Fig. 1. Flow chart of the matrix vector product calculations in MLFMA
Fig. 2. Flow chart of the MVP calculations in the proposed MLFMA
Fig. 3. Target geometry of the canonical flare CAD model
Fig. 4. The monostatic RCS of the flare CAD model
Fig. 5. The number of iterations for the flare CAD model
Fig. 6. Target geometry of the B-2 stealth CAD model
Fig. 7. The monostatic RCS of the B-2 stealth CAD model
Fig. 8. The number of iterations for the B-2 stealth CAD model
Fig. 9. The number of iterations as a function of the number of basis in the unit sphere CAD model
Fig. 10. The computation time per iteration as a function of the number of basis in the unit sphere CAD model
Table 1. The computational complexity improvements of the reference and proposed MLFMA
Table 2. The average number of iterations and total computation time of the reference and proposed MLFMA in the flare simulation
Table 3. The average number of iterations and total computation time of the reference and proposed MLFMA in the B-2 stealth simulation
Table 4. The NRMSD value, average number of iterations, and total computation time of the proposed MLFMA in terms of S' value
Table 5. The computation time per iteration of the reference and proposed MLFMA
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