Qualitative Methods in Inverse Scattering Theory An Introduction /

• Main Authors: Cakoni, Fioralba (Author), Colton, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Mathematical analysis.; Analysis (Mathematics).; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Continuum mechanics.; Electrical engineering.; Analysis.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Applications of Mathematics.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Electrical Engineering.
• Physical Description: VIII, 227 p. 14 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540312307
• ISSN: 1860-6245

Inverse scattering theory has been a particularly active and successful field in applied mathematics and engineering for the past twenty years. The increasing demands of imaging and target identification require new powerful and flexible techniques besides the existing weak scattering approximation or nonlinear optimization methods. One class of such methods comes under the general description of qualitative methods in inverse scattering theory. This textbook is an easily-accessible "class-tested" introduction to the field. It is accessible also to readers who are not professional mathematicians, thus making these new mathematical ideas in inverse scattering theory available to the wider scientific and engineering community.