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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Mourad Bellassoued , Ibtissem Ben Aïcha

In this paper, we consider the inverse boundary value problem for the polyharmonic operator. We prove that the second order perturbations are uniquely determined by the corresponding Dirichlet to Neumann map. More precisely, we show in…

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We obtain sharp convergence rates, using Dirichlet correctors, for solutions of wave equations in a bounded domain with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients. The results are used to prove the exact boundary controllability that is…

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In this paper, we study the rapid stabilization of an unstable wave equation, in which an unknown disturbance is located at the boundary condition. We address two different boundary conditions: Dirichlet- Dirichlet and Dirichlet-Neumann. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Patricio Guzmán , Agustín Huerta , Hugo Parada

We consider the problem to reconstruct a wave speed $c \in C^\infty(M)$ in a domain $M \subset \R^n$ from acoustic boundary measurements modelled by the hyperbolic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map $\Lambda$. We introduce a reconstruction formula…

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We study the obstacle problem for unbounded sets in a proper metric measure space supporting a (p,p)-Poincare inequality. We prove that there exists a unique solution. We also prove that if the measure is doubling and the obstacle is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Daniel Hansevi

In this paper we introduce some new concepts for second-order hyperbolic equations: two-point boundary value problem, global exact controllability and exact controllability. For several kinds of important linear and nonlinear wave equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-04-20 De-Xing Kong , Qing-You Sun

This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problem involving the time-domain elastic wave equations in a bounded $d$-dimensional domain. First, an explicit reconstruction formula for the density is established by means of the…

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We prove quantitative norm bounds for a family of operators involving impedance boundary conditions on convex, polygonal domains. A robust numerical construction of Helmholtz scattering solutions in variable media via the…

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This article proposes a process to reconstruct a Riemann surface with boundary equipped with a conductivity tensor from its boundary and its Dirichlet-Neumann operator. When initial data comes from a two dimensional real Riemannian oriented…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Vincent Michel

We study an inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map as the data. We consider piecewise constant wavespeeds on an unknown tetrahedral partition and prove a Lipschitz stability estimate in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-08 Elena Beretta , Maarten V. de Hoop , Elisa Francini , Sergio Vessella

This paper is concerned with an inverse wavenumber/frequency-dependent source problem for the Helmholtz equation. In two and three dimensions, the unknown source term is supposed to be compactly supported in spatial variables but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Mengjie Zhao , Suliang Si , Guanghui Hu

We study the inverse problem of determining both the source of a wave and its speed inside a medium from measurements of the solution of the wave equation on the boundary. This problem arises in photoacoustic and thermoacoustic tomography,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Christina Knox , Amir Moradifam

In this paper, we consider an acoustic wave transmission problem with mixed boundary conditions of Dirichlet, Neumann, and impedance type. The transmission interfaces may join the domain boundary in a general way independent of the location…

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Nonlinear deformations of a two-dimensional gas bubble are investigated in the framework of a Hamiltonian formulation involving surface variables alone. The Dirichlet--Neumann operator is introduced to accomplish this dimensional reduction…

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A new numerical method to solve an inverse source problem for the Helmholtz equation in inhomogenous media is proposed. This method reduces the original inverse problem to a boundary value problem for a coupled system of elliptic PDEs, in…

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This paper concerns the inverse source problems for the time-harmonic elastic and electromagnetic wave equations. The goal is to determine the external force and the electric current density from boundary measurements of the radiated wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Gang Bao , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

We study second-order hyperbolic equations with degenerate elliptic operators and non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary inputs. We establish existence and regularity of weak solutions in weighted Sobolev spaces under mild assumptions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Donghui Yang , Jie Zhong

We study the stability in the inverse problem of determining the time dependent zeroth-order coefficient $q(t,x)$ arising in the wave equation, from boundary observations. We derive, in dimension $n\geq 2$, a log-type stability estimate in…

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