Mature the entire computational process involved in the execution of a time-domain Maxwell's equation solver and push the envelope of High Performance Computing by demonstrating large electromagnetic problems of interest to government and industry. The solver is based on an explicit time discretization scheme that is parallelized by subdividing the computational domain into regions, using recursive spectral bisection.
Message passing is required to update the solution at the subdivided region interfaces.
Large-scale simulations of this fighter at a frequency of 5 GHz, where a predicted 40 million grid cells will be required, will eventually be attempted. Several pre-processing tasks become bottlenecks when running large scale simulations. This may require the parallelization of the volume grid generation and the domain decomposition utilities. Parallel CEM computation for a full fighter. As we transition from the present gigaflops to the next generation teraflops computing, CEM will become integral to aerospace design, not only as a stand alone technology, but also as part of the multi-disciplinary coupling that leads to well optimized designs.