A well-conditioned weak coupling of boundary element and high-order finite element methods for time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering by inhomogeneous objects

International audienceThe aim of this paper is to propose efficient weak coupling formulations between the boundary element method and the high-order finite element method for solving time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering problems. The approach is based on the use of a non-overlapping domain decomposition method involving optimal transmission operators. The associated transmission conditions are constructed through a localization process based on complex rational Padé approximants of the nonlocal Magnetic-to-Electric operators. Numerical results are presented to validate and analyze the new approach for both homogeneous and inhomogeneous scatterers