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Setup:

The role of the ParaMoM setup phase is to read in necessary information from two files. One is the parameters' file and the other is the target geometry description (DC) file. The information given in the parameters' file is listed as

  1. The integration formulation type (EFIE, or MFIE, or CFIE).
  2. The excitation frequency in megahertz.
  3. The transmitter and receiver polarization combinations (up to 16 of them).
  4. Three angle sweep scenarios to be chosen (see Appendix ): monostatic or fixed bistatic angle, bistatic with fixed transmitter, or bistatic with fixed equivalent line of sight.

The target geometry description (DC) file is generated by a preprocessor, which triangulates all curved surfaces according to a specified maximum edge length. The DC file contains the following information:

  1. The total number of triangular faces, edges, and nodes in the model.
  2. The connectivity of these triangles.
  3. The parametric coordinates of vertices of these triangles
  4. The material specification


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Sat Dec 3 17:51:03 EST 1994