Article history: Received 8 March 2010 Received in revised form 1 September 2010 Accepted 15 September 2010

Article history: Received 30 April 2009 Received in revised form 25 June 2009 Accepted 29 June 2009 Available online 2 July 2009 PACS: 02.30.Em 02.30.Rz 02.60.Dc 24.10.Cn

We describe a multipole method for calculating the modes of microstructured optical fibers. The method uses a multipole expansion centered on each hole to enforce boundary conditions accurately and matches expansions with different origins by use of addition theorems. We also validate the method and give representative results. © 2002 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 060.2280, 060.2400, 0...

Dispersion-relation methods are used to derive a form-factor representation for the retarded dispersion energy of two hydrogen atoms that are described by relativistic electron theory. By expressing the electromagnetic form factors in terms of atomic transition matrix elements the complete multipole expansion of the interatomic dispersion energy is obtained. The long-range asymptotic limit of t...

Non-transparent models of multipole expansion model and two pointmass model are analyzed from the catastrophe theory. Singularity behaviours of 2n-pole moments are discussed. We apply these models to triple quasar PG1115+080 and compare with the typical transparent model, softened power law spheroids. Multipole expansion model gives the best fit among them.

The Fast Multipole Method (FMM) is well known to possess a bottleneck arising from decreasing workload on higher levels of the FMM tree [Greengard and Gropp, Comp. Math. Appl., 20(7), 1990]. We show that this potential bottleneck can be eliminated by overlapping multipole and local expansion computations with direct kernel evaluations on the finest level grid.

A new fast multipole boundary element method (BEM) is presented in this paper for large-scale analysis of two-dimensional (2-D) elastostatic problems based on the direct boundary integral equation (BIE) formulation. In this new formulation, the fundamental solution for 2-D elasticity is written in a complex form using the two complex potential functions in 2-D elasticity. In this way, the multi...

Recent advances in computational chemistry have produced force fields based on a polarizable atomic multipole description of biomolecular electrostatics. In this work, the Atomic Multipole Optimized Energetics for Biomolecular Applications (AMOEBA) force field is applied to restrained refinement of molecular models against X-ray diffraction data from peptide crystals. A new formalism is also de...

The solution of the Helmholtz and Maxwell equations using integral formulations requires to solve large complex linear systems. A direct solution of those problems using a Gauss elimination is practical only for very small systems with few unknowns. The use of an iterative method such as GMRES can reduce the computational expense. Most of the expense is then computing large complex matrix vecto...

A new adaptive fast multipole boundary element method (BEM) for solving 3-D half-space acoustic wave problems is presented in this paper. The half-space Green’s function is employed explicitly in the boundary integral equation (BIE) formulation so that a tree structure of the boundary elements only for the boundaries of the real domain need to be applied, instead of using a tree structure that ...