A Comparative Assessment Among Iterative Linear Solvers Dealing with Electromagnetic Integral Equations in 3D Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Media

This paper deals with full-vectorial, three-dimensional, electromagnetic scattering problems formulated in terms of integral scattering equations. The weak formulation is applied in order to effectively deal with inhomogeneous anisotropic media and the arising set of algebraic linear equations is solved through some of the most recent and effective iterative linear solvers for allowing a detailed assessment of their performances when facing with three-dimensional complex scenarios.

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