What is the difference between the RL-GO method in feko and SBR?

Xin Gao_22325
Xin Gao_22325 New Altair Community Member
edited September 2023 in Community Q&A

What is the difference between the RL-GO method in Feko and SBR?

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  • Jaehoon
    Jaehoon
    Altair Employee
    edited September 2023

    RL-GO: Ray Launching Geometrical Optics

    SBR: Shooting and Bouncing Rays 

    RL-GO and SBR are very similar, because both are a ray launching method which is different from a ray tracing method.

    An important difference between the ray-tracing and ray-launching methods is that ray-tracing methods (such as SRT) trace rays backward from every result pixel to the transmitter, while ray-launching methods (such as SBR) launch a number of rays from the transmitter and calculate their paths from there (from the WinProp user guide).