Solvers

MoM, physical optics, hybrid MoM-PO, wire basis, and FMM solvers

Antenna Toolbox™ provides six solvers, each with a specific application.

Solver Types	Materials	Applications
Method of Moments (MoM) solver using free-space Green's function	Metals and dielectrics	Antennas and arrays
MoM solver using periodic Green's function	Metals and dielectrics	Infinite arrays
Physical optics (PO) solver	Metals	Radar cross sections
Hybrid MoM-PO solver	Metals	Electrically large antennas, installed antennas
Fast Multipole Method (FMM) solver	Metals and dielectrics	Electrically large antennas, installed antennas
MoM solver using wire basis	Metals	Wire antennas

Topics

Method of Moments Solver for Metal Structures
Method of Moments computation technique for metal antennas.
Method of Moments Solver for Metal and Dielectric Structures
Method of Moments computation technique for metal and dielectric antennas.
Hybrid MoM-PO Method for Metal Antennas with Large Scatterers
Hybrid method of moments (MoM) and physical optics (PO) computational technique in Antenna Toolbox allows you to model antennas near large scatterers such as parabolic reflectors.
Physical Optics Solver
Physical optics (PO) solver in Antenna Toolbox allows you to solve for the RCS of an object.
Wire Solver
Wire antennas, wire solver equations, polynomial basis functions.
Fast Multipole Method for Large Structures
Fast Multipole Method (FMM) for analysis of large structures.
Finite Conductivity and Thickness Effect in MoM Solver
Learn about effects of finite conductivity and finite thickness in metals in MoM solver.