A highly effective preconditioner for solving the finite element-boundary integral matrix equation of 3-D scattering

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1212-1221

  Liu, Jian ^a   Jin, Jian Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbing boundary condition (ABC); Boundary integral equation (BIE); Electromagnetic scattering; Finite element method (FEM); Numerical analysis; Preconditioner

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

PRECONDITIONERS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0036760579     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2002.801377     Document Type: Article

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