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Sensitivity Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering from Dielectric Targets with Polynomial Chaos Expansion and Method of Moments

by Yujing Ma^1,4, Zhongwang Wang², Jieyuan Zhang³, Ruijin Huo^1,4, Xiaohui Yuan^1,4,*

1 College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, 464000, China
2 Henan International Joint Laboratory of Structural Mechanics and Computational Simulation, College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian, 463000, China
3 Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing, 100091, China
4 Henan New Environmentally-Friendly Civil Engineering Materials Engineering Research Center, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, 464000, China

* Corresponding Author: Xiaohui Yuan. Email:

(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Integration of Physical Simulation and Machine Learning in Digital Twin and Virtual Reality)

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2024, 140(2), 2079-2102. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2024.048488

Received 09 December 2023; Accepted 05 March 2024; Issue published 20 May 2024

Abstract

In this paper, an adaptive polynomial chaos expansion method (PCE) based on the method of moments (MoM) is proposed to construct surrogate models for electromagnetic scattering and further sensitivity analysis. The MoM is applied to accurately solve the electric field integral equation (EFIE) of electromagnetic scattering from homogeneous dielectric targets. Within the bistatic radar cross section (RCS) as the research object, the adaptive PCE algorithm is devoted to selecting the appropriate order to construct the multivariate surrogate model. The corresponding sensitivity results are given by the further derivative operation, which is compared with those of the finite difference method (FDM). Several examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm for sensitivity analysis of electromagnetic scattering from homogeneous dielectric targets.

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