English

Scattering Control for the Wave Equation with Unknown Wave Speed

Analysis of PDEs 2018-08-29 v3

Abstract

Consider the acoustic wave equation with unknown, not necessarily smooth, wave speed cc. We propose and study an iterative control procedure that erases the history of a wave field up to a given depth in a medium, without any knowledge of cc. In the context of seismic or ultrasound imaging, this can be viewed as removing multiple reflections from normal-directed wavefronts.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1701.01070,
  title  = {Scattering Control for the Wave Equation with Unknown Wave Speed},
  author = {Peter Caday and Maarten V. de Hoop and Vitaly Katsnelson and Gunther Uhlmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01070},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

43 pages, 17 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-22T17:41:10.281Z