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High-Order-Accurate Continuity Enforcing Nyström Discretization of 3D Maxwell Combined Field Integral Equations

Bernd Hofmann·Reza Molavi·Constantine Sideris
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In Nyström-collocation discretizations of the electric field integral equation (EFIE), the surface divergence acts on surface densities that may be discontinuous across patch boundaries, which degrades accuracy and convergence. We show that this not only affects the EFIE but every formulation in which the operator occurs, either in the equation itself or in the scattered field computation, and propose a high-order-accurate continuity-enforcing scheme for smooth surfaces as a remedy for the direct and indirect EFIEs, magnetic field integral equations (MFIEs), and regularized combined field integral equations (CFIEs) alike. The scheme comprises two ingredients: i) We show how to discretize the equations via a Chebyshev-based Nyström scheme, which admits closed quadrature rules. ii) Since unknowns and test vectors are in terms of patch-local curvilinear bases, continuity is enforced by a change of basis: we construct sparse mapping matrices assembled solely from the curvilinear geometry description. In doing so, we restore the accuracy of the EFIE such that it can be combined with the MFIEs with equal weights to form CFIEs. Numerical studies for the scattering from canonical and realistic geometries show that all considered formulations individually and combined benefit from the continuity enforcement in terms of better conditioning, reduced iterations of an iterative solver, and several more digits of accuracy in the scattered fields, despite reducing the total number of unknowns.

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Bernd Hofmann, Reza Molavi, Constantine Sideris. 2026-08-28. High-Order-Accurate Continuity Enforcing Nyström Discretization of 3D Maxwell Combined Field Integral Equations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28876

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