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A rigorous mathematical model and an efficient computational method are proposed to solving the inverse elastic surface scattering problem which arises from the near-field imaging of periodic structures. We demonstrate how an enhanced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Huaian Diao , Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

In this work, we are concerned with the inverse scattering by interfaces for the linearized and isotropic elastic model at a fixed frequency. First, we derive complex geometrical optic solutions with linear or spherical phases having a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Manas Kar , Mourad Sini

We demonstrate that simultaneous reconstruction of scattering and absorption of a mesoscopic system using angularly-resolved measurements of scattered light intensity is possible. Image reconstruction is realized based on the algebraic…

Optics · Physics 2011-01-07 Lucia Florescu , John C. Schotland , Vadim A. Markel

We consider the inverse problem of quantitative reconstruction of properties (e.g., bulk modulus, density) of visco-acoustic materials based on measurements of responding waves after stimulation of the medium. Numerical reconstruction is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Florian Faucher , Otmar Scherzer

We develop three inverse elastic scattering schemes for locating multiple small, extended and multiscale rigid bodies, respectively. There are some salient and promising features of the proposed methods. The cores of those schemes are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Guanghui Hu , Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu , Hongpeng Sun

This paper explores the reconstruction of a space-dependent parameter in inverse diffusion problems, proposing a shape-optimization-based approach. We consider a Robin boundary condition, physically motivated in diffuse optical tomography…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Manabu Machida , Hirofumi Notsu , Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago

This paper is concerned with reconstructing an acoustic obstacle and its excitation sources from the phaseless near-field measurements. By supplementing some artificial sources to the inverse scattering system, this co-inversion problem can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Deyue Zhang , Yue Wu , Yukun Guo

This paper aims to solve numerically the two-dimensional inverse medium scattering problem with far-field data. This is a challenging task due to the severe ill-posedness and strong nonlinearity of the inverse problem. As already known, it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Kai Li , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

We consider the scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves by a penetrable thin tubular scattering object in three-dimensional free space. We establish an asymptotic representation formula for the scattered wave away from the thin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Yves Capdeboscq , Roland Griesmaier , Marvin Knöller

We study an inverse scattering problem for a generic hyperbolic system of equations with an unknown coefficient called the reflectivity. The solution of the system models waves (sound, electromagnetic or elastic), and the reflectivity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky , Jörn Zimmerling

We study the fixed angle inverse scattering problem of determining a sound speed from scattering measurements corresponding to a single incident wave. The main result shows that a sound speed close to constant can be stably determined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Shiqi Ma , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Mikko Salo

This paper surveys inverse problems arising in several coupled-physics imaging modalities for both medical and geophysical purposes. These include Photo-acoustic Tomography (PAT), Thermo-acoustic Tomography (TAT), Electro-Seismic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Ilker Kocyigit , Ru-Yu Lai , Lingyun Qiu , Yang Yang , Ting Zhou

The reconstruction of physical properties of a medium from boundary measurements, known as inverse scattering problems, presents significant challenges. The present study aims to validate a newly developed convexification method for a 3D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Thuy Le , Vo Anh Khoa , Michael Victor Klibanov , Loc Hoang Nguyen , Grant Bidney , Vasily Astratov

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography aims at estimating optical parameters from photoacoustic images that are formed utilizing the photoacoustic effect caused by the absorption of an externally introduced light pulse. This optical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-10-02 Aleksi Leino , Tuomas Lunttila , Meghdoot Mozumder , Aki Pulkkinen , Tanja Tarvainen

This paper concerns the inverse scattering problem of a topologically non-trivial waveguide separating two-dimensional topological insulators. We consider the specific model of a Dirac system. We show that a short-range perturbation can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Guillaume Bal , Xixian Wang , Zhongjian Wang

Due to manufacturing defects or wear and tear, industrial components may have uncertainties. In order to evaluate the performance of machined components, it is crucial to quantify the uncertainty of the scattering surface. This brings up an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Yi Wang , Lei Lin , Junliang Lv

We consider the problem of reconstructing the seabed topography from observations of surface gravity waves. We formulate the problem as a classical inverse scattering problem using the mild-slope equation, and analyze the topographic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Adrian Kirkeby

We propose an inverse scattering scheme of recovering a polyhedral obstacle in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n=2,3$, by only a few high-frequency acoustic backscattering measurements. The obstacle could be sound-soft or sound-hard. It is shown that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-05 Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu

This paper studies the reconstruction of Stekloff eigenvalues and the index of refraction of an inhomogeneous medium from Cauchy data. The inverse spectrum problem to reconstruct Stekloff eigenvalues is investigated using a new integral…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Juan Liu , Yanfang Liu , Jiguang Sun

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem to recover the scalar, complex-valued refractive index of a medium from measurements of scattered time-harmonic electromagnetic waves at a fixed frequency. The main results are two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Frederic Weidling , Thorsten Hohage