The determination of the surface impedance of a partially coated obstacle from far field data

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 709-723

  Cakoni, Fioralba ^a   Colton, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic waves; Impedance boundary condition; Inverse scattering problem

Indexed keywords

IMPEDENCE BOUNDARY CONDITION; INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEM;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FUNCTIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; RADAR;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 2542440699     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139903424254     Document Type: Article

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