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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Heiko Gimperlein , Fabian Meyer , Ceyhun Oezdemir , Ernst P. Stephan

We consider an inverse problem for a hyperbolic partial differential equation on a compact Riemannian manifold. Assuming that $\Gamma_1$ and $\Gamma_2$ are two disjoint open subsets of the boundary of the manifold we define the restricted…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen

We show that a partial Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, where the measurement set is arbitrarily small, uniquely determines the time-dependent nonlinearity of order three or higher in a semi-linear wave equation up to natural obstructions on a…

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We propose a time-domain boundary integral method to model linear wave propagation with refractive, focusing, and Doppler effects arising from medium heterogeneities and moving obstacles. In contrast to existing techniques, our method…

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Generalized impedance boundary conditions are effective, approximate boundary conditions that describe scattering of waves in situations where the wave interaction with the material involves multiple scales. In particular, this includes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Lehel Banjai , Christian Lubich , Joerg Nick

Exploiting the time-reversal invariance and reciprocal properties of the lossless wave equation enables elegantly simple solutions to complex wave-scattering problems, and is embodied in the time-reversal mirror. A time-reversal mirror…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-12 Matthew Frazier , Biniyam Taddese , Thomas Antonsen , Steven M. Anlage

In this paper we consider the inverse problem of determining on a compact Riemannian manifold the metric tensor in the wave equation with Dirichlet data from measured Neumann boundary observations. This information is enclosed in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Mourad Bellassoued

In this paper, we study the inverse problem for determining an unknown time-dependent source coefficient in a semilinear pseudo-parabolic equation with variable coefficients and Neumann boundary condition. This unknown source term is…

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In this article we deal with a class of geometric inverse problem for bottom detection by one single measurement on the free surface in water--waves. We found upper and lower bounds for the size of the region enclosed between two different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-02 R. Lecaros , J. López-Ríos , J. H. Ortega , S. Zamorano

We study linear damped and viscoelastic wave equations evolving on a bounded domain. For both models, we assume that waves are subject to an inhomogeneous Neumann boundary condition on a portion of the domain's boundary. The analysis of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Türker Özsarı , İdem Susuzlu

An inverse boundary value problem for a 1+1 dimensional wave equation with wave speed $c(x)$ is considered. We give a regularisation strategy for inverting the map $\mathcal A:c\mapsto \Lambda,$ where $\Lambda$ is the hyperbolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Jussi Korpela , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen

The paper studies inverse problems of determining unknown coefficients in various semi-linear and quasi-linear wave equations. We introduce a method to solve inverse problems for non-linear equations using interaction of three waves, that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Ali Feizmohammadi , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen

This paper provides a theoretical foundation for some common formulations of inverse problems in wave propagation, based on hyperbolic systems of linear integro-differential equations with bounded and measurable coefficients. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kirk D. Blazek , Christiaan C. Stolk , William W. Symes

We analyze the time reversal of waves in a turbulent medium using the parabolic Markovian model. We prove that the time reversal resolution can be a nonlinear function of the wavelength and independent of the aperture. We establish a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Albert Fannjiang , Knut Solna

The solution of the wave equation in a polyhedral domain in $\mathbb{R}^3$ admits an asymptotic singular expansion in a neighborhood of the corners and edges. In this article we formulate boundary and screen problems for the wave equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Heiko Gimperlein , Fabian Meyer , Ceyhun Oezdemir , David Stark , Ernst P. Stephan

This paper studies an inverse boundary value problem for a semilinear Helmholtz equation with Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\ge2$). The objective is to recover the unknown linear and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Long-Ling Du , Zejun Sun , Li-Li Wang , Guang-Hui Zheng

This paper is concerned with an inverse wavenumber/frequency-dependent source problem for the Helmholtz equation. In two and three dimensions, the unknown source term is supposed to be compactly supported in spatial variables but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Mengjie Zhao , Suliang Si , Guanghui Hu

We consider initial boundary value problems for one-dimensional diffusion equation with time-fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ which are subject to non-zero Neumann boundary conditions. We prove the uniqueness for an inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-25 W. Rundell , M. Yamamoto

In this paper we consider the mathematical model of thermo- and photo-acoustic tomography for the recovery of the initial condition of a wave field from knowledge of its boundary values. Unlike the free-space setting, we consider the wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Sebastian Acosta , Carlos Montalto

In this paper, we consider a wave equation on a bounded interval where the initial conditions are known (are zero) and we are rather interested in identifying an unknown source term $q(x)$ thanks to the measurement output $y$ which is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-04 Marianne Chapouly , Mazyar Mirrahimi