Inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering theory.

zbMath0893.35138MaRDI QIDQ1376934

David Colton, Rainer Kress

Publication date: 22 January 1998

Published in: Applied Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Newton's method; uniqueness; Maxwell equations; Helmholtz equation; inverse medium problem; far field data; linear integral equation of the first kind; acoustic obstacle scattering; electromagnetic obstacle scattering; waves in an inhomogeneous medium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35P25: Scattering theory for PDEs

35R30: Inverse problems for PDEs

78A45: Diffraction, scattering

76Q05: Hydro- and aero-acoustics

35J05: Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation

65R30: Numerical methods for ill-posed problems for integral equations

35-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations

45A05: Linear integral equations

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