An efficient two-level preconditioner based on lifting for FEM-BEM equations

The system resulting from the coupled Finite Element Method and Boundary Element Method formulations inherits all characteristics of both finite element and boundary element equation system, i. e., the system is partially sparse and symmetric and partially full and nonsymmetric. Consequently, to solve the resulting coupled equation system is not a trivial task. This paper proposes a new efficient lifting-based two level preconditioner for the coupled global system. The proposed approach is applied to solve the coupled systems resulting from the electromagnetic scattering problem and its perfor...