Challenges in developing efficient Calderon preconditioners for resonating or high material contrast penetrable objects (Q2352319)

This paper deals with the numerical analysis of the efficiency of the Calderon preconditioned Poggio-Miller-Chang-Harrington-Wu-Tsai (PMCHWT) formulations. Problems of this type arise in electromagnetic scattering by homogeneous penetrable objects. The authors argue that the condition number of the matrix and the number of iterations increase as the material contrast increases. It is also argued that for negative material parameters the required number of iterations can be very high, while in the case of zero material parameters, the PMCHWT formulation becomes very singular.