A matrix-free two-grid preconditioner for solving boundary integral equations in electromagnetism (Q2494012)

In this paper there are presented some multipole techniques for solving boundary integral equations in electromagnetism. The author uses a sparse approximate inverse as a smoother for an algebraic two-grid cycle where the inter-grids operators are based on spectral information from the preconditioned matrix. The sparse approximate inverse is computed from the near-field part of the dense coefficient matrix and the pattern is prescribed in advance by using physical information. The numerical results on small and medium size problems from radar cross section calculations illustrate this method.