PARALLEL COMPUTING FOR THE FINITE-ELEMENT METHOD

A finite element method is presented to compute time harmonic microwav e fields in three dimensional configurations. Nodal-based finite eleme nts have been coupled with an absorbing boundary condition to solve op en boundary problems. This paper describes how the modeling of large d evices has been made possible using parallel computation, New algorith ms are then proposed to implement this formulation on a cluster of wor kstations (10 DEC ALPHA 300X) and on a CRAY C98. Analysis of the compu tation efficiency is performed using simple problems. The electromagne tic scattering of a plane wave by a perfect electric conducting airpla ne is finally given as example.