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We study the inverse problem of locating point sources from far-field data under plane wave incidence. A direct computational method is developed based on multiple scattering theory, using a novel indicator function to avoid iterative…

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We analyze the inverse problem to reconstruct the shape of a three dimensional homogeneous dielectric obstacle from the knowledge of noisy far field data. The forward problem is solved by a system of second kind boundary integral equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Thorsten Hohage , Frédérique Le Louër

Starting with far field data of time-harmonic acoustic or electromagnetic waves radiated by a collection of compactly supported sources in two-dimensional free space, we develop criteria and algorithms for the recovery of the far field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Roland Griesmaier , John Sylvester

We introduce two data completion algorithms for the limited-aperture problems in inverse acoustic scattering. Both completion algorithms are independent of the topological and physical properties of the unknown scatterers. The main idea is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Fangfang Dou , Xiaodong Liu , Shixu Meng , Bo Zhang

An inverse obstacle scattering problem for the electromagnetic wave governed by the Maxwell system over a finite time interval is considered. It is assumed that the wave satisfies the Leontovich boundary condition on the surface of an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Masaru Ikehata

We study an inverse random obstacle scattering problems in $\mathbb{R}^2$ where the scatterer is formulated by a Gaussian process defined on the angular parameter domain. Equipped with a modified covariance function which is mathematically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Zhiqi Sun , Xiang Xu , Yiwen Lin

The attempt to solve inverse scattering problems often leads to optimization and sampling problems that require handling moderate to large amounts of partial differential equations acting as constraints. We focus here on determining…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Carolina Abugattas , Ana Carpio , Elena Cebrián , Gerardo Oleaga

This paper is concerned with the inverse medium problem of determining the location and shape of penetrable scattering objects from measurements of the scattered field. We study a sampling indicator function for recovering the scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Trung Truong

This paper studies a prototype of inverse obstacle scattering problems whose governing equation is the Helmholtz equation in two dimensions. An explicit method to extract information about the location and shape of unknown obstacles from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Masaru Ikehata

This paper is concerned with uniqueness, phase retrieval and shape reconstruction methods for inverse elastic scattering problems with phaseless far field data. Systematically, we study two basic models, i.e., inverse scattering of plane…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu

This work extends the factorization method to the inverse scattering problem of reconstructing the shape and location of an absorbing penetrable scatterer embedded in a thin infinite elastic (Kirchhoff--Love) plate. With the assumption that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Rafael Ceja Ayala , Isaac Harris , General Ozochiawaeze

Obtaining conductance spectra for a concentration of disordered impurities distributed over a nanoscale device with sensing capabilities is a well-defined problem. However, to do this inversely, i.e., extracting information about the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 S. Mukim , J. O'Brien , M. Abarashi , M. S. Ferreira , C. G. Rocha

Applying the inverse scattering transform to study a focusing two-component Hirota equation with nonzero boundary conditions at infinity. Through the spectral problem and the adjoint spectral problem, the analyticity properties and symmetry…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-02-25 Feng Zhang , Pengfei Han , Yi Zhang

We consider the inverse problem of recovering the optical properties of a highly-scattering medium from acousto-optic measurements. Using such measurements, we show that the scattering and absorption coefficients of the radiative transport…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Francis J Chung , John C Schotland

An inverse problem of finding an obstacle and the boundary condition on its surface from the fixed-energy scattering data is studied. A new method is developed for a proof of the uniqueness results. The method does not use the discreteness…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm

Scattering theory has had a major roll in twentieth century mathematical physics. Mathematical modeling and algorithms of direct,- and inverse electromagnetic scattering formulation due to biological tissues are investigated. The algorithms…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Farid Monsefi , Magnus Otterskog , Sergei Silvestrov

We propose a tomographic method to reconstruct the optical properties of a highly-scattering medium from incoherent acousto-optic measurements. The method is based on the solution to an inverse problem for the diffusion equation and makes…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 Guillaume Bal , John C Schotland

The probe and singular sources methods are two well-known classical direct reconstruction methods in inverse obstacle problems governed by partial differential equations. In this paper, by considering an inverse obstacle problem governed by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Masaru Ikehata

We consider the inverse obstacle scattering problem of determining both the shape and the "equivalent impedance" from far field measurements at a fixed frequency. In this work, the surface impedance is represented by a second order surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-24 Laurent Bourgeois , Nicolas Chaulet , Houssem Haddar

This paper shows how the enclosure method which was originally introduced for elliptic equations can be applied to inverse initial boundary value problems for parabolic equations. For the purpose a prototype of inverse initial boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Masaru Ikehata , Mishio Kawashita