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We obtain a novel interior control result for wave equations on time dependent domains. This is done by deriving a suitable Carleman estimate and proving the corresponding observability inequality. We consider the wave equation with time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Vaibhav Kumar Jena

In this article we are concerned with an inverse initial boundary value problem for a non-linear wave equation in space dimension $n\geq 2$. In particular we consider the so called interior determination problem. This non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Gen Nakamura , Manmohan Vashisth , Michiyuki Watanabe

An inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation in a bounded domain is considered. The problem is to extract information about an unknown obstacle embedded in the domain with unknown impedance boundary condition (the Robin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-16 Masaru Ikehata

We consider the inverse conductivity problem of identifying embedded objects in unbounded domains. The main tool is a set of special solutions to the Schroedinger equation, the complex spherical waves, which are constructed by a Carleman…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Mikko Salo , Jenn-Nan Wang

We consider an inverse problem governed by the Westervelt equation with linear diffusivity and quadratic-type nonlinearity. The objective of this problem is to recover all the coefficients of this nonlinear partial differential equation. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Sebastian Acosta , Benjamin Palacios

In this article, we have studied the convergence behavior of the Dirichlet-Neumann waveform relaxation algorithms for time-fractional sub-diffusion and diffusion wave equations in 1D \& 2D for regular domains, where the dimensionless…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Soura Sana , Bankim C. Mandal

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for the Maxwell's equations with a given data assumed to be known only in accessible part $\Gamma$ of the boundary. We aim to prove an uniqueness result using the Dirichlet to Neumann map with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Christian Daveau , Abdessatar Khelifi , Houssem Lihiou

An inverse boundary value problem for the 1+1 dimensional wave equation $(\partial_t^2 - c(x)^2 \partial_x^2)u(x,t)=0,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}_+$ is considered. We give a discrete regularization strategy to recover wave speed $c(x)$ when we are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Jussi Korpela , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen

For a wave equation with time-independent Lorentzian metric consider an initial-boundary value problem in $\mathbb{R}\times \Omega$, where $x_0\in \mathbb{R}$, is the time variable and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Let…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Gregory Eskin

We study the inverse problem for determining the time-dependent matrix potential appearing in the wave equation. We prove the unique determination of potential from the knowledge of solution measured on a part of the boundary.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Rohit Kumar Mishra , Manmohan Vashisth

In this paper, we consider the problem of nonlinear (in particular, saturated) stabilization of the high-dimensional wave equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The wave dynamics are subject to a dissipative nonlinear velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Nicolas Vanspranghe , Francesco Ferrante , Christophe Prieur

We consider inverse problems for a Westervelt equation with a strong damping and a time-dependent potential $q$. We first prove that all boundary measurements, including the initial data, final data, and the lateral boundary measurements,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Li Li , Yang Zhang

We study the unique recovery of time-independent lower order terms appearing in the symmetric first order perturbation of the Riemannian wave equation by sending and measuring waves in disjoint open sets of \textit{a priori} known closed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Matti Lassas , Boya Liu , Teemu Saksala , Andrew Shedlock , Ziyao Zhao

This article addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering both the wave speed coefficient and an unknown initial condition (acting as the source) for the multidimensional wave equation from a single passive boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yavar Kian , Hongyu Liu

The problem of reconstructing the spatial support of an extended radiating electric current source density in a lossy dielectric medium from transient boundary measurements of the electric fields is studied. A time reversal algorithm is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Abdul Wahab , Amer Rasheed , Tasawar Hayat , Rab Nawaz

An inverse obstacle problem for the wave governed by the wave equation in a two layered medium is considered under the framework of the time domain enclosure method. The wave is generated by an initial data supported on a closed ball in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Masaru Ikehata , Mishio Kawashita , Wakako Kawashita

Solutions of a system of wave equations are constructed for both homogeneous and inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions at every regularity level. We prove that boundary observability, and thus boundary exact controllability, at some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Thomas Perrin

This paper deals with a one-dimensional wave equation with a nonlinear dynamic boundary condition and a Neumann-type boundary control acting on the other extremity. We consider a class of nonlinear stabilizing feedbacks that only depend on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Nicolas Vanspranghe , Francesco Ferrante , Christophe Prieur

We consider inverse obstacle and transmission scattering problems where the source of the incident waves is located on a smooth closed surface that is a boundary of a domain located outside of the obstacle/inhomogeneity of the media. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Evgeny Lakshtanov , Boris Vainberg

We study an inverse problem of determining a time-dependent damping coefficient and potential appearing in the wave equation in a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension three or higher. More specifically, we are concerned with the case of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Boya Liu , Teemu Saksala , Lili Yan