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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

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…

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In this work we consider the method of non-linear boundary integral equation for solving numerically the inverse scattering problem of obliquely incident electromagnetic waves by a penetrable homogeneous cylinder in three dimensions. We…

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This paper gives applications of the enclosure method introduced by the author to typical inverse obstacle and crack scattering problems in two dimensions. Explicit extraction formulae of the convex hull of unknown polygonal sound-hard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Masaru Ikehata

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

This paper investigates the problem of time-harmonic acoustic scattering in an inhomogeneous medium with a complex topological structure. Specifically, the medium is anisotropic and contains several disjoint sound-soft obstacles. This model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Huaian Diao , Qingle Meng , Zhiying Sun

This paper investigates the inverse biharmonic scattering problems of identifying the shape and location of the obstacle with phased and phaseless measurement data. A direct imaging method based on reverse time migration is proposed for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Tielei Zhu , Zhihao Ge

We present a reconstruction algorithm for recovering both "magnetic-hard" and "magnetic-soft" obstacles in a background domain with known isotropic medium from the boundary impedance map. We use in our algorithm complex geometric optics…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-28 Ting Zhou

In this paper, we consider the scattering of a time-dependent electromagnetic wave by an elastic body immersed in the lower half-space of a two-layered background medium which is separated by an unbounded rough surface. By proposing two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Changkun Wei , Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang

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

We study an inverse scattering problem for Maxwell's equations in terminating waveguides, where localized reflectors are to be imaged using a remote array of sensors. The array probes the waveguide with waves and measures the scattered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Liliana Borcea , Dinh-Liem Nguyen

This paper addresses the inverse scattering problem in the domain Omega. The input data, measured outside Omega, involve the waves generated by the interaction of plane waves with various directions and unknown scatterers fully occluded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Phuong M. Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen , Huong T. T. Vu

In this paper, we consider the direct and inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic waves by an unbounded rough interface with a buried impenetrable obstacle. We first study the well-posedness of the direct problem with a local source…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Yulong Lu , Bo Zhang

This paper is concerned with time domain forward scattering and inverse scattering problems with a single moving point source as the emitter. Approximate solutions are provided for the forward scattering problem with a moving emitter.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Yu Sun , Bo Chen , Peng Gao , Qiuyi Li , Yao Sun

We consider the elastic wave scattering problem involving rigid obstacles. This work addresses the inverse problem of reconstructing the position and shape of such obstacles using far-field measurements. A novel monotonicity-based approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Mengjiao Bai , Huaian Diao , Weisheng Zhou

The scattering of electromagnetic waves from obstacles with wave-material interaction in thin layers on the surface is described by generalized impedance boundary conditions, which provide effective approximate models. In particular, this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Jörg Nick , Balázs Kovács , Christian Lubich

Consider a time-harmonic elastic point source incident on a bounded obstacle which is embedded in an open space filled with a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium. This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of recovering the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Chun Liu , Guanghui Hu , Tao Yin , Bo Zhang

We study Maxwell's equations in time domain in an anisotropic medium. The goal of the paper is to solve an inverse boundary value problem for anisotropies characterized by scalar impedance $\alpha$. This means that the material is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Erkki Somersalo

This work is concerned with an inverse electromagnetic scattering problem in two dimensions. We prove that in the TE polarization case, the knowledge of the electric far-field pattern incited by a single incoming wave is sufficient to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Guanghui Hu , Long Li , Jun Zou