Abstract
We introduce a new technique which remedies the drawbacks in the Finite Element solution of low‐frequency electromagnetic scattering problems, through the usage of an anisotropic metamaterial layer which is designed by employing the coordinate transformation approach. The usual finite element method should utilize a “challenging” mesh generation scheme to accurately simulate the “small” objects in scattering problems; on the contrary, the proposed technique provides a considerable reduction in the number of unknowns, and requires a more convenient and simpler mesh structure inside the computational domain. The most interesting feature of the proposed method is its capability to handle arbitrarily shaped “small” scatterers by using a “single” mesh and by modifying only the constitutive parameters inside the matamaterial layer. We report some numerical results for two‐dimensional electromagnetic scattering problems. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 639–646, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23167