TY - BOOK AU - Beilina,Larisa AU - Klibanov,Michael Victor ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Approximate Global Convergence and Adaptivity for Coefficient Inverse Problems SN - 9781441978059 AV - QA370-380 U1 - 515.353 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Springer US KW - Mathematics KW - Global analysis (Mathematics) KW - Manifolds (Mathematics) KW - Partial differential equations KW - Numerical analysis KW - Physics KW - Applied mathematics KW - Engineering mathematics KW - Partial Differential Equations KW - Numerical and Computational Physics KW - Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering KW - Numerical Analysis KW - Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds N1 - Two Central Questions of This Book and an Introduction to the Theories of Ill-Posed and Coefficient Inverse Problems -- Approximately Globally Convergent Numerical Method -- Numerical Implementation of the Approximately Globally Convergent Method -- The Adaptive Finite Element Technique and its Synthesis with the Approximately Globally Convergent Numerical Method -- Blind Experimental Data -- Backscattering Data N2 - Approximate Global Convergence and Adaptivity for Coefficient Inverse Problems is the first book in which two new concepts of numerical solutions of multidimensional Coefficient Inverse Problems (CIPs) for a hyperbolic Partial Differential Equation (PDE) are presented: Approximate Global Convergence and the Adaptive Finite Element Method (adaptivity for brevity). Two central questions for CIPs are addressed: How to obtain a good approximation for the exact solution without any knowledge of a small neighborhood of this solution, and how to refine it given the approximation. The book also combines analytical convergence results with recipes for various numerical implementations of developed algorithms. The developed technique is applied to two types of blind experimental data, which are collected both in a laboratory and in the field. The result for the blind backscattering experimental data collected in the field addresses a real-world problem of imaging of shallow explosives UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7805-9 ER -