A coupled BEM and FEM for the interior transmission problem in acoustics

Abstract The interior transmission problem (ITP) is a boundary value problem arising in inverse scattering theory, and it has important applications in qualitative methods. In this paper, we propose a coupled boundary element method (BEM) and a finite element method (FEM) for the ITP in two dimensions. The coupling procedure is realized by applying the direct boundary integral equation method to define the so-called Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) mappings. We show the existence of the solution to the ITP for the anisotropic medium. Numerical results are provided to illustrate the accuracy of the coupling method.

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