Inverse obstacle scattering for homogeneous dielectric cylinders using a boundary finite-element method

A method for reconstructing the shape and the permittivity of a penetrable homogeneous cylinder is described. It is the extension to penetrable cylinders of a previous work dealing with perfectly conducting cylinders. A low-frequency approximation is used to determine an initial guess. Then, a rigorous boundary integral method permits us to reconstruct arbitrary shapes and complex permittivities. It is based on an iterative conjugate gradient algorithm requiring the solving of two direct diffraction problems only. A simple and original regularization scheme is presented, which ensures the robustness of the algorithm. Numerical examples with lossy embedding media and additional random noise for both E/spl par/ and H/spl par/ polarizations are given.

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