Code-Verification Techniques for the Method-of-Moments Implementation of the Electric-Field Integral Equation

Abstract

The method-of-moments implementation of the electric-field integral equation yields many code-verification challenges due to the various sources of numerical error and their possible interactions. Matters are further complicated by singular integrals, which arise from the presence of a Green’s function. In this paper, we provide approaches to separately assess the numerical errors arising from the use of basis functions to approximate the solution and the use of quadrature to approximate the integration. Through these approaches, we are able to verify the code and compare the error from different quadrature options.