Abstract
Conference Title: 2014 USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium) Conference Start Date: 2014, July 6 Conference End Date: 2014, July 11 Conference Location: Memphis, TN, USA Despite the availability of modern supercomputers, direct solution of multiscale problems by means of conventional CEM methods-be it FEM, FDTD or MoM-is highly challenging. This is because modeling of structures with fine features, which might share the computational domain with other large objects, often requires dealing with a large number of degrees of freedom. Dealing with such multiscale problems often forces us to compromise the accuracy of the numerical discretization process when faced with the problem of capturing the small-scale features, in order to cope with the limited available resources in terms of CPU memory and time.