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At the continuous level, we consider two types of tumor growth models: the cell density model, which is based on the fluid mechanical construction, is more favorable for scientific interpretation and numerical simulations; and the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Jian-Guo Liu , Min Tang , Li Wang , Zhennan Zhou

In this paper we consider the linearized problem of recovering both the sound speed and the thermal absorption arising in thermoacoustic and photoacoustic tomography. We show that the problem is unstable in any scale of Sobolev spaces.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann

The Westervelt equation models the propagation of nonlinear acoustic waves in a regime well-suited for applications such as medical ultrasound imaging. In this work, we prove that the nonlinear parameter, as well as the sound speed, can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Mike Wendels

In this paper we propose an approach for \emph{simultaneous} identification of the \emph{absorption density} and the \emph{speed of sound} by photoacoustic measurements. Experimentally our approach can be realized with sliced photoacoustic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-28 Andreas Kirsch , Otmar Scherzer

We present the full thermodynamics of a fluid confined by an arbitrary external potential based on the virial expansion of the grand potential. The fluid may be classical or quantum and it is assumed that interatomic interactions are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-13 Nadia Sandoval-Figueroa , Víctor Romero-Rochín

Thermal tomography is an imaging technique for deducing information about the internal structure of a physical body from temperature measurements on its boundary. This work considers time-dependent thermal tomography modeled by a parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Nuutti Hyvönen , Lauri Mustonen

The standard approach for photoacoustic imaging with variable speed of sound is time reversal, which consists in solving a well-posed final-boundary value problem for the wave equation backwards in time. This paper investigates the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Zakaria Belhachmi , Thomas Glatz , Otmar Scherzer

We study a thermodynamically consistent model describing phenomena in a visco-plastic metal subjected to temperature changes. We complete the model with the mixed boundary condition on displacement and stress and Neumann-type condition for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Leszek Bartczak , Sebastian Owczarek

Medical ultrasound imaging is the most widespread real-time non-invasive imaging system and its formulation comprises signal transmission, signal reception, and image formation. Ultrasound signal transmission modelling has been formalized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Chiara Razzetta , Valentina Candiani , Marco Crocco , Federico Benvenuto

Photoacoustic tomography seeks to reconstruct an acoustic initial pressure distribution from the measurement of the ultrasound waveforms. Conventional methods assume a-prior knowledge of the sound speed distribution, which practically is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Hongming Shan , Christopher Wiedeman , Ge Wang , Yang Yang

We present a study of sound wave propagation in a time dependent random medium and an application to imaging. The medium is modeled by small temporal and spatial random fluctuations in the wave speed and density, and it moves due to an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

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

We present the results on numerical testing of the Boundary Control Method in the sound speed determination for the acoustic equation on semiplane. This method for solving multidimensional inverse problems requires no a priory information…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-09-27 I. B. Ivanov , M. I. Belishev , V. S. Semenov

In the paper, we investigate the nonlinear thermoelasticity model in two- and three-dimensional convex and bounded domains. We propose new boundary conditions for the displacement. These conditions are not usual in thermoelasticity.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Piotr Michał Bies

Thermoacoustics, the interaction between heat and acoustic waves, is used in a wide range of advanced technological applications. Conversion of ultrasound waves into heat is employed in medical applications, including tumor ablation.…

Recently, a novel measurement setup has been introduced to photoacoustic tomography, that collects data in the form of projections of the full 3D acoustic pressure distribution at a certain time instant. Existing imaging algorithms for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Gerhard Zangerl , Markus Haltmeier , Linh V. Nguyen , Robert Nuster

We study the wave equation in a bounded domain or on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. Assume that we are given the hyperbolic Neumann-to-Dirichlet map on the boundary corresponding to physical boundary measurements. We consider…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-08-17 Matias Dahl , Anna Kirpichnikova , Matti Lassas

We study the boundary rigidity problem with partial data consisting of determining locally the Riemannian metric of a Riemannian manifold with boundary from the distance function measured at pairs of points near a fixed point on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann , Andras Vasy

Estimating the spatial distribution of the acoustic field is essential in communication, medical imaging and other varied industrial processes. Acoustic particle velocity sensor plays a key role in providing directional information of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Ruby Jindal , Sushil Kumar Singh , Ravibabu Mulaveesala , Jolly Xavier

We present an ab-initio study of the temperature dependent elastic constants of BAs, a semiconductor that exhibits ultra-high thermal conductivity and is under investigation for thermal management in electronics. We test the consistency of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-15 Cristiano Malica , Andrea Dal Corso