A primal mixed formulation for exterior transmission problems in \(R^2\) (Q5944667)

The authors study the weak solvability and Galerkin approximations of a class of linear exterior transmission problems in potential theory. To this end they combine a primal mixed finite element approach with a Dirichlet-to-Neumann mapping. Uniqueness of the solution for the continuous and discrete formulations is obtained and it is shown that the finite element subspaces of Lagrange type satisfy the discrete compatibility conditions. Also an error analysis is provided and the strong convergence of the Galerkin solutions is proved.