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An inverse boundary value problem for a 1+1 dimensional wave equation with wave speed $c(x)$ is considered. We give a regularisation strategy for inverting the map $\mathcal A:c\mapsto \Lambda,$ where $\Lambda$ is the hyperbolic…

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In this paper we consider the problem of recovering the conformal factor in a conformal class of Riemannian metrics from the boundary measurement of one wave field. More precisely, using boundary control operators, we derive an explicit…

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We establish a link between stability estimates for a hyperbolic inverse problem via the Boundary Control method and the blowup of a constant appearing in the contexts of optimal unique continuation and cost of approximate controllability.

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We consider the stability in the inverse problem consisting in the determination of an electric potential $q$, appearing in a Dirichlet initial-boundary value problem for the wave equation $\partial_t^2u-\Delta u+q(x)u=0$ in an unbounded…

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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…

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This paper is concerned with inverse acoustic source problems in an unbounded domain with dynamical boundary surface data of Dirichlet kind. The measurement data are taken at a surface far away from the source support. We prove uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Guanghui Hu , Yavar Kian , Yue Zhao

This paper analyzes the discretization of a Neumann boundary control problem with a stochastic parabolic equation, where an additive noise occurs in the Neumann boundary condition. The convergence is established for general filtrations, and…

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Herein, we study an inverse problem for detecting unknown obstacles by the enclosure method using the Dirichlet--to--Neumann map for measurements. We justify the method for an penetrable obstacle case involving a biharmonic equation. We use…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Gyeongha Hwang , Manas Kar

A novel method to solve inverse problems for the wave equation is introduced. The method is a combination of the boundary control method and an iterative time reversal scheme, leading to adaptive imaging of coefficient functions of the wave…

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We study the inverse problems for the second order hyperbolic equations of general form with time-dependent coefficients assuming that the boundary data are given on a part of the boundary. The main result of this paper is the determination…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Gregory Eskin

We consider inverse problems for a Westervelt equation with a strong damping and a time-dependent potential $q$. We first prove that all boundary measurements, including the initial data, final data, and the lateral boundary measurements,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Li Li , Yang Zhang

Numerically solving the 2D Helmholtz equation is widely known to be very difficult largely due to its highly oscillatory solution, which brings about the pollution effect. A very fine mesh size is necessary to deal with a large wavenumber…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Bin Han , Michelle Michelle

The problem of recovering acoustic sources, more specifically monopoles, from point-wise measurements of the corresponding acoustic pressure at a limited number of frequencies is addressed. To this purpose, a family of sparse optimization…

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In this paper we provide bound estimates for the two fastest wave speeds emerging from the solution of the Riemann problem for three well-known hyperbolic systems, namely the Euler equations of gas dynamics, the shallow water equations and…

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The inverse scattering problem for biharmonic waves, governing flexural vibrations of elastic plates, presents fundamental analytical challenges distinct from acoustic inverse problems due to the fourth-order differential operator and…

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This paper deals with a one-dimensional wave equation with a nonlinear dynamic boundary condition and a Neumann-type boundary control acting on the other extremity. We consider a class of nonlinear stabilizing feedbacks that only depend on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Nicolas Vanspranghe , Francesco Ferrante , Christophe Prieur

We propose a numerical method to solve an inverse source problem of computing the initial condition of hyperbolic equations from the measurements of Cauchy data. This problem arises in thermo- and photo- acoustic tomography in a bounded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Thuy T. Le , Loc H. Nguyen , Thi-Phong Nguyen , William Powell

We provide very mild sufficient conditions for space-time domains (non-necessarily cylindrical) which ensure that the continuous Dirichlet problem and the H\"older Dirichlet problem are well-posed, for any parabolic operator in divergence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Pablo Hidalgo-Palencia , Cody Hutcheson , Joseph Kasel

We present a modification of the BC-method in the inverse hyperbolic problems. The main novelty is the study of the restrictions of the solutions to the characteristic surfaces instead of the fixed time hyperplanes. The main result is that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-08 Gregory Eskin

In this paper, we show for the first time the increasing stability of the inverse source problem for the n-dimensional Helmholtz equation at multiple wave numbers, which is different from the two-or three-dimensional Helmholtz equation. In…

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