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In this short note, we present a probabilistic perspective on the Schiffer's problem in the inverse scattering theory, which asks whether one can uniquely determine the shape of an unknown obstacle by a single far-field measurement. It is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Hongyu Liu

This paper is concerned with an inverse obstacle problem which employs the dynamical scattering data of acoustic wave over a finite time interval. The unknown obstacle is assumed to be sound-soft one. The governing equation of the wave is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Masaru Ikehata

We apply boundary integral equations for the first time to the two-dimensional scattering of time-harmonic waves from a smooth obstacle embedded in a continuously-graded unbounded medium. In the case we solve the square of the wavenumber…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Alex. H. Barnett , Bradley J. Nelson , J. Matthew Mahoney

Consider the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous medium with complex refractive index. We show that an approximate factorization method can be applied to reconstruct the support of the complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Fenglong Qu , Haiwen Zhang

This paper is concerned with inverse scattering problems of determining the support of an isotropic and homogeneous penetrable body from knowledge of multi-static far-field patterns in acoustics and in linear elasticity. The normal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Chun Liu , Guanghui Hu , Jianli Xiang , Jiayi Zhang

This paper is concerned with a nonlinear imaging problem, which aims to reconstruct a locally perturbed, perfectly reflecting, infinite plane from intensity-only (or phaseless) far-field or near-field data. A recursive Newton iteration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

In this paper we demonstrate a computational method to solve the inverse scattering problem for a star-shaped, smooth, penetrable obstacle in 2D. Our method is based on classical ideas from computational geometry. First, we approximate the…

We study the fixed angle inverse scattering problem of determining a sound speed from scattering measurements corresponding to a single incident wave. The main result shows that a sound speed close to constant can be stably determined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Shiqi Ma , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Mikko Salo

We present two uniqueness results for the inverse problem of determining an index of refraction by the corresponding acoustic far-field measurement encoded into the scattering amplitude. The first one is a local uniqueness in determining a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-28 Guanghui Hu , Hongyu Liu

Let $M$ be the number of bounded and Lipschitz regular obstacles $D_j, j:=1, ..., M$ having a maximum radius $a$, $a<<1$, located in a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^3$. We are concerned with the acoustic scattering problem with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Bashir Ahmad , Durga Prasad Challa , Mokhtar Kirane , Mourad Sini

We analyze in this paper the performance of a newly developed globally convergent numerical method for a coefficient inverse problem for the case of multi-frequency experimental backscatter data associated to a single incident wave. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen , Aleksandr E. Kolesov , Michael A. Fiddy , Hui Liu

This paper is concerned with inverse crack scattering problems for time-harmonic acoustic waves. We prove that a piecewise linear crack with the sound-soft boundary condition in two dimensions can be uniquely determined by the far-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Xiaoxu Xu , Guanqiu Ma , Guanghui Hu

This paper analyzes inverse scattering for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in the case where the wave speed is piecewise constant. Scattering data recorded for an arbitrarily small interval of frequencies is shown to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sophia Bugarija , Peter C. Gibson , Guanghui Hu , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

The Kirchhoff approximation (K-A) to calculate the acoustic backscattering of a complex structure can be evaluated using a discretized version of its surface (i.e. a $\textit{mesh}$). From the computational viewpoint, the most accesible…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Edmundo Lavia , Juan D. Gonzalez , Silvia Blanc

We study an inverse acoustic scattering problem by the Factorization Method when the unknown scatterer consists of two objects with different physical properties. Especially, we consider the following two cases: One is the case when each…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Takashsi Furuya

In this paper we present a hybrid approach to numerically solve two-dimensional electromagnetic inverse scattering problems, whereby the unknown scatterer is hosted by a possibly inhomogeneous background. The approach is `hybrid' in that it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-22 G. Giorgi , M. Brignone , R. Aramini , M. Piana

This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves from an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is established, employing the integral equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-09 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

We consider the wave scattering and inverse scattering in an inhomogeneous medium embedded a homogeneous droplet with a small size, which is modeled by a constant mass density and a small bulk modulus. Based on the Lippmann-Schwinger…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Zhe Wang , Ahcene Ghandriche , Jijun Liu

We obtain a nonperturbative, analytical solution to integral equation of scattering theory by assuming the field within the scattering object is a spherical wave with a scattering amplitude equal to that of the far field. This approximation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Brian Slovick , Srini Krishnamurthy