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We consider the inverse boundary value problem for the system of equations describing elastic waves in isotropic media on a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^3$ via a finite-time Laplace transform. The data is the dynamical Dirichlet-to-Neumann…

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Physics has played a fundamental role in medicine sciences, specially in imaging diagnostic. Currently, image reconstruction techniques are already taught in Physics courses and there is a growing interest in new potential applications. The…

Physics Education · Physics 2013-02-22 Olavo Henrique Menin , Vanessa Rolnik , Alexandre Souto Martinez

Consider the acoustic wave equation with unknown, not necessarily smooth, wave speed $c$. We propose and study an iterative control procedure that erases the history of a wave field up to a given depth in a medium, without any knowledge of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Peter Caday , Maarten V. de Hoop , Vitaly Katsnelson , Gunther Uhlmann

We consider the problem of reconstructing the seabed topography from observations of surface gravity waves. We formulate the problem as a classical inverse scattering problem using the mild-slope equation, and analyze the topographic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Adrian Kirkeby

An inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation in a bounded domain is considered. The problem is to extract information about an unknown obstacle embedded in the domain with unknown impedance boundary condition (the Robin…

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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

Redatuming is a data processing technique to transform measurements recorded in one acquisition geometry to an analogous data set corresponding to another acquisition geometry, for which there are no recorded measurements. We consider a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Maarten V. de Hoop , Paul Kepley , Lauri Oksanen

We investigate the inverse problem of recovering an initial source for the wave equation with fractional attenuation, motivated by photoacoustic tomography (PAT). The attenuation is modeled by a Caputo fractional derivative of order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Sebastian Acosta , Benjamin Palacios

In this paper we develop theoretical analysis and numerical reconstruction techniques for the solution of an inverse boundary value problem dealing with the nonlinear, time-dependent monodomain equation, which models the evolution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-27 Elena Beretta , Cecilia Cavaterra , Maria Cristina Cerutti , Andrea Manzoni , Luca Ratti

The goal in acousto-electric tomography (AET) is to reconstruct an image of the unknown electric conductivity in an object from exterior electrostatic currents and voltages that are measured on the boundary of the object while the object is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Bjørn Christian Skov Jensen , Kim Knudsen

In Gel'fand's inverse problem, one aims to determine the topology, differential structure and Riemannian metric of a compact manifold $M$ with boundary from the knowledge of the boundary $\partial M,$ the Neumann eigenvalues $\lambda_j$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Dmitri Burago , Sergei Ivanov , Matti Lassas , Jinpeng Lu

We develop a novel wave imaging scheme for reconstructing the shape of an inhomogeneous scatterer and we consider the inverse acoustic obstacle scattering problem as a prototype model for our study. There exists a wealth of reconstruction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Hongyu Liu , Xiaodong Liu , Xianchao Wang , Yuliang Wang

Generalized impedance boundary conditions are effective, approximate boundary conditions that describe scattering of waves in situations where the wave interaction with the material involves multiple scales. In particular, this includes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Lehel Banjai , Christian Lubich , Joerg Nick

We study the mathematical model of thermoacoustic and photoacoustic tomography when the sound speed has a jump across a smooth surface. This models the change of the sound speed in the skull when trying to image the human brain. We derive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a non-invasive imaging modality that requires recovering the initial data of the wave equation from certain measurements of the solution outside the object. In the standard PAT measurement setup, the used…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Linh V. Nguyen , Markus Haltmeier , Richard Kowar , Ngoc Do

We consider the inverse dynamic problem for the wave equation with a potential on a real line. The forward initial-boundary value problem is set up with a help of boundary triplets. As an inverse data we use an analog of a response operator…

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This work studies phase retrieval for wave fields, aiming to recover the phase of an incoming wave from multi-plane intensity measurements behind different types of linear and nonlinear media. We show that unique phase retrieval can be…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-22 Yan Cheng , Kui Ren , Nathan Soedjak

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…

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This paper studies an inverse boundary value problem for a semilinear Helmholtz equation with Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\ge2$). The objective is to recover the unknown linear and…

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