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A coefficient inverse problem for a parabolic equation is considered. Using a Carleman Weight Function, a globally strictly convex cost functional is constructed for this problem.
A new numerical method is proposed for a 1-D inverse medium scattering problem with multi-frequency data. This method is based on the construction of a weighted cost functional. The weight is a Carleman Weight Function (CWF). In other…
A version of the convexification globally convergent numerical method is constructed for a coefficient inverse problem for a wave-like partial differential equation. The presence of the Carleman Weight Function in the corresponding…
A version of the convexification numerical method for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a 1D hyperbolic PDE is presented. The data for this problem are generated by a single measurement event. This method converges globally. The most…
A new version of the convexification method is developed analytically and tested numerically for a 1-D coefficient inverse problem in the frequency domain. Unlike the previous version, this one does not use the so-called "tail function",…
A convexification-based numerical method for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a parabolic PDE is presented. The key element of this method is the presence of the so-called Carleman Weight Function in the numerical scheme. Convergence…
A version of the so-called "convexification" numerical method for a coefficient inverse scattering problem for the 3D Hemholtz equation is developed analytically and tested numerically. Backscattering data are used, which result from a…
The inverse problem of estimating dielectric constants of explosives using boundary measurements of one component of the scattered electric field is addressed. It is formulated as a coefficient inverse problem for a hyperbolic differential…
An inverse scattering problem for the 3D acoustic equation in time domain is considered. The unknown spatially distributed speed of sound is the subject of the solution of this problem. A single location of the point source is used. Using a…
For the first time, a globally convergent numerical method is presented for ill-posed Cauchy problems for quasilinear PDEs. The key idea is to use Carleman Weight Functions to construct globally strictly convex Tikhonov-like cost…
In a series of publications of the second author, including some with coauthors, globally strictly convex Tikhonov-like functionals were constructed for some nonlinear ill-posed problems. The main element of such a functional is the…
It is shown that the contraction mapping principle with the involvement of a Carleman Weight Function works for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a 1D hyperbolic equation. Using a Carleman estimate, the global convergence of the…
The key tool of this paper is a new Carleman estimate for an arbitrary parabolic operator of the second order for the case of reversed time data. This estimate works on an arbitrary time interval. On the other hand, the previously known…
We propose a new approach to constructing globally strictly convex objective functional in a 1-D inverse medium scattering problem using multi-frequency backscattering data. The global convexity of the proposed objective functional is…
To compute the spatially distributed dielectric constant from the backscattering data, we study a coefficient inverse problem for a 1D hyperbolic equation. To solve the inverse problem, we establish a new version of Carleman estimate and…
The first globally convergent numerical method for a Coefficient Inverse Problem (CIP) for the Riemannian Radiative Transfer Equation (RRTE) is constructed. This is a version of the so-called \textquotedblleft convexification" method, which…
This article develops the numerical and theoretical study of a reconstruction algorithm of a potential in a wave equation from boundary measurements, using a cost functional built on weighted energy terms coming from a Carleman estimate.…
We study the global convergence of the gradient descent method of the minimization of strictly convex functionals on an open and bounded set of a Hilbert space. Such results are unknown for this type of sets, unlike the case of the entire…
We present in this paper a novel numerical reconstruction method for solving a 3D coefficient inverse problem with scattering data generated by a single direction of the incident plane wave. This inverse problem is well-known to be a highly…
We develop an efficient and convergent numerical method for solving the inverse problem of determining the potential of nonlinear hyperbolic equations from lateral Cauchy data. In our numerical method we construct a sequence of linear…