Mixed-field hybrid FEM/BEM formulation for two-dimensional TE radiation and scattering by resistive strips

A new mixed-field, hybrid finite-element method (FEM) (E-field)/BEM (H-field) formulation is presented for modeling the two-dimensional (2-D) radiation and scattering from scatterers comprised with inhomogeneous materials including resistive cards and perfectly electrically conducting (PEC) strips for the TE polarization. Using the usual H-field formulation leads to the requirement for the use of a special gap element. The E-field formulation will result in a much more cumbersome BEM integral. The new mixed-field formulation retains the simplicity of the scalar formulation and is useful for problems which cannot be treated elegantly with the existing approach. The new formulation has been implemented into a 2-D FEM/BEM computer code. Numerical results obtained compare well to previously published results