A well-posed surface currents and charges system for electromagnetism in dielectric media (Q779259)

The paper deals with the mathematical foundations of a method intended for the computation of the electromagnetic (EM) field in the free space with a finite, in general inhomogeneous, dielectric body excited by a time-harmonic electromagnetic wave. In [\textit{M. Ganesh} et al., J. Math. Anal. Appl. 412, No. 1, 277--300 (2014; Zbl 1308.78005)], a system of four singular surface integral equations for normal and tangential components of the exterior limit of the EM field on the body surface is derived. It is proved that if that system is augmented with two specific surface integral constraints, then it possesses a unique solution for all positive values of the EM wave frequency. In this paper, it is pointed out that enforcing the two constraints in actual numerical work may be computationally highly expensive. To circumvent this difficulty, it is proposed that the integral system from [loc. cit.] is replaced with another one with constraints directly embedded in it. This is achieved by adding a suitably chosen extra term to a (matrix) integral kernel of the original system. Conditions for unique solubility of the new system are established.