Desenvolvimento e implementação da técnica Electric Charge Gaussian Gradation Method (ECGGM) aplicada ao Método Radial de Interpolação por Pontos (RPIM) com Truncagem ADE-PML

Abstract

In this work, an improved meshless discretization methodology, based on the Coulomb's Law Discretization Method (CLDM), is introduced. With the presented improvement, it is possible to controllably increase the density of nodes around edges and corners of metallic scatterers immersed in analysis space in a natural way by gradually modifying node's charges using Gaussian functions. Also, a new computational implementation of ADE-PML (Auxiliary Differential Equation - Perfectly Matched Layer) to truncate the method meshless RPIM is presented. The equations used in the absorbent region are obtained in the time domain using auxiliary differential equations, then the developed formulation is validated through numerical experiments related to the reflection error of absorbent material and also by calculating the radar cross section (RCS) of a metal cylindrical scatterer, which has a known analytical solution. It is observed that higher concentration of nodes on the neighborhood of media interfaces substantially improves the precision of numerical solutions of Maxwell's equations obtained with the Radial Point Interpolaton Method (RPIM) because of the proper calculation of fields near the boundaries. Several other relevant benefits resulting from the new technique are observed and highlighted. The proposed ADE-PML formulation produces free field update equations of so-called split fields characteristic of the original PML. Recursive convolution used by CPML (Convolutional Perfectly Matched Layer) are not used, avoiding problems of absorption when small time steps are employed.