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Passive imaging involves recording waves generated by uncontrolled, random sources and utilizing correlations of such waves to image the medium through which they propagate. In this paper, we focus on passive inverse obstacle scattering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Thorsten Hohage , Meng Liu

This paper is concerned with analysis of electromagnetic wave scattering by an obstacle which is embedded in a two-layered lossy medium separated by an unbounded rough surface. Given a dipole point source, the direct problem is to determine…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Peijun Li , Jue Wang , Lei Zhang

In this paper, we give a positive answer to a challenging open problem for recovering unknown obstacle (which is usually referred to as a scatterer) by acoustic wave probe associated to the Helmholtz equation. We show that the acoustic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Genqian Liu

The wave equation is time-reversal invariant. The enclosure method using a Neumann data generated by this invariance is introduced. The method yields the minimum ball that is centered at a given arbitrary point and encloses an unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Masaru Ikehata

The paper aims a logarithmic stability estimate for the inverse source problem of the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation with attenuation factor in a two layer medium. We establish a stability by using multiple frequencies at the two end…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Mozhgan Nora Entekhabi , Ajith Gunaratne

We consider the inverse elastic scattering problems using the far field data due to one incident plane wave. A simple method is proposed to reconstruct the location and size of the obstacle using different components of the far field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-09 J Liu , X. Liu , J. Sun

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of determining an obstacle and the corresponding incident point sources in the Helmholtz equation from near-field scattering data. An optimization method is proposed to simultaneously recover…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo

The main purpose of this paper is to develop further the integrated theory of the probe and singular sources methods (IPS) which may work for a group of inverse obstacle problems. Here as a representative and typical member of the group, an…

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

In this paper, we consider the scattering of a plane wave by a rigid obstacle embedded in a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium in three dimensions. Based on the Helmholtz decomposition, the elastic scattering problem is reduced to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

This paper is concerned with reconstruction issue of some typical inverse problems and consists of three parts. First a framework of the enclosure method for an inverse source problem governed by the Helmholtz equation at a fixed wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Masaru Ikehata

We consider an inverse acoustic scattering problem in simultaneously recovering an embedded obstacle and its surrounding inhomogeneous medium by formally determined far-field data. It is shown that the knowledge of the scattering amplitude…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Hongyu Liu , Xiaodong Liu

We discuss a time-harmonic inverse scattering problem for a nonlinear Helmholtz equation with compactly supported inhomogeneous scattering objects that are described by a nonlinear refractive index in unbounded free space. Assuming the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-14 Roland Griesmaier , Marvin Knöller , Rainer Mandel

We consider the problem of reconstructing the shape of an impenetrable sound-soft obstacle from scattering measurements. The input data is assumed to be the far-field pattern generated when a plane wave impinges on an unknown obstacle from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Carlos Borges , Leslie Greengard

This paper is concerning the inverse conductive scattering of acoustic waves by a bounded inhomogeneous object with possibly embedded obstacles inside. A new uniqueness theorem is proved that the conductive object is uniquely determined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Chengyu Wu , Jiaqing Yang

In this paper a wave is generated by an initial data whose support is localized at the outside of unknown obstacles and observed in a limited time on a known closed surface or the same position as the support of the initial data. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Masaru Ikehata

It is proved that if the scattering amplitudes at a fixed wavenumber for two obstacles from a certain large class of obstacles differ a little, than the obstacles differ a little. Error estimate is given. It is proved that there is an…

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

This paper concerns the stability on the inverse source scattering problem for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in a two-layered medium. We show that the increasing stability can be achieved by using multi-frequency wave field at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Yue Zhao , Peijun Li

An inverse obstacle problem for the wave equation in a two layered medium is considered. It is assumed that the unknown obstacle is penetrable and embedded in the lower half-space. The wave as a solution of the wave equation is generated by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Masaru Ikehata , Mishio Kawashita

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-16 Xiaodong Liu , 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