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This conference was held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 10-14, 2000. This volume contains papers presented at the conference covering a broad range of topics in theoretical and applied wave propagation in the general areas of acoustics, electromagnetism, and elasticity. Both direct and inverse problems are well represented. This volume, along with the three previous ones, presents a state-of-the-art primer for research in wave propagation. The conference is conducted by the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique with the cooperation of SIAM.

This volume contains the papers presented at the title conference. Speakers from 13 different countries were represented at the meeting. A broad range of topics in theoretical and applied wave propagation is covered.

Acoustic and electromagnetic waves underlie a range of modern technology from sonar, radio, and television to microwave heating and electromagnetic compatibility analysis. This book, written by an international researcher, presents some of the research in a complete way. It is useful for graduate students in mathematics, physics, and engineering.

The author investigates the ∠n-time decay of solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation in one space dimension with a semi-infinite potential step and derives a limiting absorption principle for the wave equation in two space dimensions with zero Dirichlet conditions imposed on a half axis. These are model cases for transient waves in media with semi-infinite geometry involving interfaces and cracktips.

These ten detailed and authoritative survey articles on numerical methods for direct and inverse wave propagation problems are written by leading experts. Researchers and practitioners in computational wave propagation, from postgraduate level onwards, will find the breadth and depth of coverage of recent developments a valuable resource. The articles describe a wide range of topics on the application and analysis of methods for time and frequency domain PDE and boundary integral formulations of wave propagation problems. Electromagnetic, seismic and acoustic equations are considered. Recent developments in methods and analysis ranging from finite differences to hp-adaptive finite elements, including high-accuracy and fast methods are described with extensive references.