TY - EJOU AU - Zheng, Quan AU - Wang, Jing AU - Li, Jing-ya TI - The Coupling Method with the NaturalBoundary Reduction on an Ellipse for Exterior Anisotropic Problems T2 - Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences PY - 2011 VL - 72 IS - 2 SN - 1526-1506 AB - This paper investigates the coupling method of the finite element and the natural boundary element using an elliptic artificial boundary for solving exterior anisotropic problems, and obtains a new error estimate that depends on the mesh size, the location of the elliptic artificial boundary, the number of terms after truncating from the infinite series in the integral. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and the properties of this method. KW - Exterior anisotropic problem KW - coupling method KW - elliptic artificial boundary KW - natural boundary reduction KW - error estimate DO - 10.3970/cmes.2011.072.103