“…In contrast, the integral equation approach, where the mathematical formulation directly ensures that the solution satisfies condition (3) by suitably employing the radiating fundamental solution, is free from considerations mentioned above, and consequently, does not require solution strategies to discretize outside the inhomogeneity. We, therefore, base our numerical treatment of the scattering problem on an equivalent integral equation formulation which is given by the Lippmann-Schwinger equation [1,11], (4) u(x) + κ 2 In recent years, a lot of progress has been made toward numerical solution of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation; for example, see [12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27]. Most fast numerical schemes among these, though high order accurate for smooth scattering media, exhibit only linear convergence in the presence of material discontinuity [12,15,17,22,26,27].…”