A coupled BEM and FEM for the interior transmission problem in acoustics (Q633978)

The interior transmission problem (ITP) is a non-standard boundary value problem arising in the inverse scattering theory for the study of far-field patterns for transmission problem. The authors focus on the ITP for the acoustic wave scattering by an anisotropic medium, and they propose a coupled boundary and finite element method in two dimensions. The coupling procedure is realized by applying the direct boundary integral method to define the so-called Dirichlet-to-Neumann mappings. The existence of solution is shown via the Fredholm alternative. Numerical results illustrate the accuracy of the coupling method.