\title{Application of Massively Parallel Architecture to Computational Electromagnetics}
\author{Xianneng Shen}
\dept{Electrical Engineering}
\previousdegrees{B.S., Chengdu Institute of Radio Engineering, 1982 \\ 
	M.S., Syracuse University, 1993}
\degreelevel{Doctor of Philosophy}
\typeofthesis{Dissertation}
\typeofabstract{Abstract of Dissertation}
\submitdate{August, 1994}
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\prefacesection{Acknowledgements}

I am most indebted to Professors Roger F. Harrington and Geoffery C. Fox,
my academic and research advisors, for their encouragement, fruitful
suggestions, invaluable and friendly guidance, and financial support. Without
these, the success of the present work would not have been possible.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Chung-Chi Cha,
Gerald E. Mortensen, and Debra L. Wilkes of Syracuse Research Corporation
for their support and various useful discussions.  

I am deeply grateful to Dr. Joseph R. Mautz for his day-to-day consultation,
taking the time to read
this dissertation and to offer his suggestions. I greatly appreciated
the courses taught by Dr. Arlon T. Adams, Dr.
Jay K. Lee, and Dr. Ercument Arvas.

I am very grateful to Dr. Kim Mills and Gang Cheng, my project leaders, for
their useful suggestions on parallel implementation. I thank Gerald E.
Mortensen and Dr. Kenneth A.
Hawick for their reading of the manuscript of the dissertation and offering 
suggestions. 

I thank the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University,
and the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Facility at NASA Ames Research
Center for providing extensive computer resources.

Finally, I would like to give my deepest thanks to my family. 
I am most grateful to my wife, Pingyan Zou, and my son, Kevin,
for their patience and understanding of my frequent absence.

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