Abstract:
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This contribution to the special session in honor of
Prof. Rafael Gómez-Martín will address the 30 year development
of graphical processing techniques (GRECO) for fast computation
of Radar Cross Section (RCS) of electrically large and
complex targets. The development of GRECO started in 1988,
in the frame of the “Applied research project for the development
and validation of numerical methods for RCS prediction, analysis
and optimization”, in which I had the pleasure to know Rafael
since our groups where participating together in the project.
The development of GRECO never stopped, and recently it
has been updated by replacing the graphical processing technique
for computation of surface reflection and edge diffraction
by a hybrid CPU-graphical processing approach. The resulting
code has the same accuracy as conventional RCS computation
techniques, but detection of shadowed surfaces and edges is one
order of magnitude faster than the most efficient O(N logN)
implementations. |