The application code provides for electromagnetic analysis for radar imaging and antenna performance evaluation of on-board airborne structures such as aircrafts and unmanned aerial vehicles. Thus, the algorithm is particularly suited for design and simulation of realistic practical structures, including high density microwave circuits and propagation in wireless systems. There are particular challenges in designing the parallel preconditioner for the solver and new nested fast algorithms. The initial funding for this position is for nine months starting January, 2000.
Further support is subject to student performance and available funding.
The student will work with Dr. Abhijit Bose at the Center for Parallel Computing in collaboration with Prof. John Volaki and graudate student, Kubilay Sertel of the Dept. of Electrical Engr. and Computer Science. While knowledge of electromagnetics is not necessary, some knowledge in solving partial differential equations using finite element methods is a definite plus.