Houssem Haddar – författare

Inverse scattering theory is a major theme of applied mathematics, and has applications to such diverse areas as medical imaging, geophysical exploration, and nondestructive testing. The inverse scattering problem is nonlinear and ill-posed, thus presenting particular problems in the development of efficient inversion algorithms. Initial efforts to address these problems focused on nonlinear optimization methods, which required strong a priori information. This led to a qualitative approach to inverse scattering theory in which the amount of a priori information is drastically reduced, although at the expense of only obtaining limited information about the values of constitutive parameters. This book provides an introduction to this important new direction in inverse scattering theory. Beginning with a basic introduction to the theory, the authors proceed to more recent developments, including a detailed discussion of the transmission eigenvalue problem. Both the new generalized linear sampling method and well-known linear sampling and factorization methods are included.

Inverse scattering theory is a major theme in applied mathematics, with applications to such diverse areas as medical imaging, geophysical exploration, and nondestructive testing. The inverse scattering problem is both nonlinear and ill-posed, thus presenting challenges in the development of efficient inversion algorithms. A further complication is that anisotropic materials cannot be uniquely determined from given scattering data. In the first edition of Inverse Scattering Theory and Transmission Eigenvalues, the authors discussed methods for determining the support of inhomogeneous media from measured far field data and the role of transmission eigenvalue problems in the mathematical development of these methods. In this second edition, three new chapters describe recent developments in inverse scattering theory. In particular, the authors explore the use of modified background media in the nondestructive testing of materials and methods for determining the modified transmission eigenvalues that arise in such applications from measured far field data. They also examine nonscattering wave numbers—a subset of transmission eigenvalues—using techniques taken from the theory of free boundary value problems for elliptic partial differential equations and discuss the dualism of scattering poles and transmission eigenvalues that has led to new methods for the numerical computation of scattering poles.This book will be of interest to research mathematicians and engineers and physicists working on problems in target identification. It will also be useful to advanced graduate students in many areas of applied mathematics.