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MONCROS
MONCROS is used for 3D radar cross section (RCS) using the method of moments (MOM) technique.
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Examples
The newFASANT User Guide contains a collection of examples that teaches you newFASANT concepts and essentials.
Utilities
The newFASANT utilities allows you to set up a remote server, use the batch utility to mesh and execute a project or upload a project to a queueing system.
GUI
An overview of the newFASANT graphical user interface is given.
Post-Process
Results can be post-processed to obtain customized results.
Antennas
A large collection of antennas are supported as well as importing radiation patterns and specifying the antenna feeding.
Materials
Materials can be defined, edited, deleted and assigned to specific surfaces or objects.
Command Line
The command line can be used to draw geometries or change the GUI configuration.
GTD
GTD can be used for 3D analysis of on board antennas and coverage parameters for radiocommunications systems.
PO
PO is used for radar cross section analysis of electrically large and complex targets using physical optics (PO).
GTD-PO
GTD-PO combines the GTD and PO high-frequency techniques for the RCS analysis of complex bodies as well as antenna and radio propagation in large urban environments.
MONCROS
MONCROS is used for 3D radar cross section (RCS) using the method of moments (MOM) technique.
MOM
MOM is used for the 3D analysis of complex antennas, on board antennas, electromagnetic compatibility and radar cross section (RCS).
Periodical Structures
Periodical structures is used for the analysis and design of reflection and transmission coefficients in periodical structures and metamaterials.
Parabolic Equation
PE is used for the analysis of radio-wave propagation over land and sea for medium and large distances.
Ultrasound
Ultrasound is used for the 3D analysis of ultrasound emitting sources and time delay response simulation.
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Parameters

Using Solver Parameters the user can specify settings that are used by the solver being used to execute the calculations. When the Parameters menu item is selected from the Solver menu, the following panel appears:

Figure 1. Solver Panel

The Solver method is used to specify which solution method is used to execute the calculations. Each method has a different operation mode.

Physical Objects (PO) performs a high frequency approximation based in the combination of optics and full wave methods. It computes the RCS considering only the illuminated subdomains by the incident wave and with the PO current.
Method of Moments (MoM) is an accurate full wave method that can be used to solve many kinds of simulations. The Method of Moments approach is used in subdomains.

A multiprocessing architecture strategy can be selected using the appropiate options as well. MPI is an multiprocessing architecture that works on many computer architectures, but it requires more shared memory than OpenMP, which is a memory architecture that can be selected when the constraints for memory requirements are important.

Electromagnetic equation and Solver Functions can only be set when the solver method have been set to MoM. These settings are covered later on its own section.

The user can set the relative error that is used by the simulation process. This is the maximum delta error accepted by the simulation. The maximum number of iterations can be set as well. The simulation process makes use of an iterative process. This setting can limit the number of iterations performed by the calculation in order to prevent simulations that don't converge simulating infinititely.