Research

Table of Contents:

Research in Numerical Modeling of Acoustic, Electromagnetic, Elastodynamic and Coupled Field Problems with Applications in Non-destructive Testing (NDT), Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), Remote Sensing, Medical Diagnostics, and Geophysics.

Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD)

Finite Integration Technique (FIT)

	Acoustic Finite Integration Technique (AFIT)
	Electromagnetic Finite Integration Technique (EFIT)
	Elastodynamic Finite Integration Technique (EFIT)
	Piezoelectric Finite Integration Technique (PFIT)
	Electromagnetic-Ultrasonic Finite Integration Technique (EMUSFIT)

Finite Element Method (FEM)

Method of Moments (MoM)

Links related to Numerical Modeling

Research in Imaging Methods and Inverse Scattering in Acoustics, Electromagnetics, and Elastodynamics with Applications in Non-destructive Testing (NDT), Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), Remote Sensing, Medical Diagnostics, and Geophysics.

	Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique (SAFT)
	Computer Tomography (CT), Diffraction Tomography (DT)
	Time-reversal and MUSIC
	Linear Sampling Method
	Non-Linear Optimization Schemes: Modified Gradient in Field Method, Contrast Source Inversion, Extended Contrast Source Inversion
	Links related to Inverse Scattering

Research in Computer Science

Application of MPI in FDTD and FIT Algorithms

Links Related to Numerical Modeling

Research Groups:

	Prof. Thomas Weiland, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany (FIT)
	Prof. Enzo Tonti (Discrete Physics) (Università di Trieste, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile)
	PIER 32: Geometric Methods for Computational Electromagnetics
	Claudio Matttussi

Links Related to Imaging and Inverse Scattering.

Research Groups:

	Prof. Weng Cho Chew - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
	Prof. David Colton - University of Delaware, USA
	Prof. Anthony J. Devaney - Northeastern University, Boston, USA
	Prof. Rainer Kress - University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
	Prof. Karl Jörg Langenberg - University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
	Prof. Alfred K. Louis - University of Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
	Prof. Frank Natterer - University of Münster, Münster, Germany
	Prof. Albert Taratola - University of Paris, Paris, France
	Prof. Anton G. Tijhuis - University of Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
	Prof. Mary Oman - Iowa State University, Ames, USA
	Prof. P. M. van den Berg - TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
	Prof. Curt Vogel - University of Montana. Boyeman, MT, USA (Total variation)
	Inverse Problems - University of Alabama, USA
	Scientific Computing and Imaging - University of Utah, USA
	Inverse Problems Network
	Direct and Inverse Bioelectric Field Problems

References:

James G. Berryman, Lecture Notes on Nonlinear Inversion and Tomography

Research in Computer Science

Application of MPI in FDTD / FIT Algorithms

MPI Links:

MPI Home Page

	The Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard
	MPI 1, MPI 1.1, MPI 1.2, MPI 2.0

Message Passing Interface Forum

MPICH - A Portable Implementation of MPI

MP-MPICH - Multi-Platform MPICH, RWTH Aachen (d)

MPI Books

	Using MPI - 2nd Edition Portable Parallel Programming with the Message Passing Interface William Gropp, Ewing Lusk and Anthony Skjellum Paper / November 1999
	Using MPI-2 Advanced Features of the Message Passing Interface William Gropp, Ewing Lusk and Rajeev Thakur Paper / November 1999
	MPI: The Complete Reference (2-volume set) Marc Snir and William Gropp Paper / September 1998
	MPI: The Complete Reference (Vol. 2) Volume 2 - The MPI-2 Extensions William Gropp, Steven Huss-Lederman, Andrew Lumsdaine, Ewing Lusk, Bill Nitzberg, William Saphir and Marc Snir Paper / September 1998

Beowulf Books

	Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux Thomas Sterling Paper / October 2001 Comprehensive guides to the latest Beowulf tools and methodologies.
	Beowulf Cluster Computing with Windows Thomas Sterling Paper / October 2001 Comprehensive guides to the latest Beowulf tools and methodologies.
	How to Build a Beowulf A Guide to the Implementation and Application of PC Clusters Thomas Sterling, John Salmon, Donald J. Becker and Daniel F. Savarese Paper / May 1999

Parallel Computing Links

High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart

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