Research Article

Enhancing the Efficiency and Accuracy of MLFMA-PO Hybrid Method for Analyzing Electrically Large Objects

Table 3

Calculation time and memory requirement of the two different methods for the monopole mounted on the folding planes.

Methods Unknowns Memory (GB) Calc. time (s)
MoM region PO region

MLFMA 240835 / 18.58 2142.5
MLFMA-PO 7052 233783 2.88 342.6
MLFMA-IPO 7052 233783 4.29 141.7