TY - JOUR T1 - Efficient Spectral Methods for Transmission Eigenvalues and Estimation of the Index of Refraction AU - An , Jing AU - Shen , Jie JO - Journal of Mathematical Study VL - 1 SP - 1 EP - 20 PY - 2014 DA - 2014/03 SN - 47 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jms.v47n1.14.01 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jms/9947.html KW - spectral method, index of refraction, transmission eigenvalue, electromagnetic scattering, inverse problem. AB -
An important step in estimating the index of refraction of electromagnetic scattering problems is to compute the associated transmission eigenvalue problem. We develop in this paper efficient and accurate spectral methods for computing the transmission eigenvalues associated to the electromagnetic scattering problems. We present ample numerical results to show that our methods are very effective for computing transmission eigenvalues (particularly for computing the smallest eigenvalue), and together with the linear sampling method, provide an efficient way to estimate the index of refraction of a non-absorbing inhomogeneous medium.