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The inverse acoustic scattering of point objects using multi-frequency sparse measurements are studied. The objects may be a sum of point sources or point like scatterers. We show that the locations and scattering strengths of the point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu

We study the direct and inverse scattering problems when the incident electromagnetic field is a time harmonic point- generated wave in a chiral medium and the scatterer is a perfectly conducting sphere. The exact Green s function and the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-12-12 Nikolaos Berketis , Christodoulos Athanasiadis

This paper is about perfectly electrically conducting structures designed to produce negligible scattered power when exposed to a time-harmonic plane electromagnetic wave. The structures feature cavities capable of concealing objects.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Johan Helsing , Anders Karlsson

In this paper we consider the direct scattering problem of obliquely incident time-harmonic electromagnetic plane waves by an infinitely long dielectric cylinder. We assume that the cylinder and the outer medium are homogeneous and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-08 Drossos Gintides , Leonidas Mindrinos

A linear scattering problem for which incoming and outgoing waves are restricted to a finite number of radiation channels can be precisely described by a frequency-dependent scattering matrix. The entries of the scattering matrix, as…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-29 Hongyao Wu , Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

We consider the scattering of time-harmonic plane waves by a compactly supported inhomogeneous scattering obstacle governed by the Helmholtz equation. Given far field observations of the scattered fields corresponding to plane wave incident…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Roland Griesmaier , Bastian Harrach , Jianli Xiang

This paper is dedicated to design a direct sampling method of inverse electromagnetic scattering problems, which uses multi-frequency sparse backscattering far field data for reconstructing the boundary of perfectly conducting obstacles. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Tilo Arens , Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu

We study time harmonic scattering problems in linear elasticity in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$. We show that certain penetrable scatterers with rectangular corners scatter every incident wave nontrivially. Even though these scatterers have interior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Jianli Xiang , Guanghui Hu

We consider the inverse elastic scattering problems using the far field data due to one incident plane wave. A simple method is proposed to reconstruct the location and size of the obstacle using different components of the far field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-09 J Liu , X. Liu , J. Sun

This paper gives a note on an application of the enclosure method to an inverse obstacle scattering problem governed by the Helmholtz equation in two dimensions. It is shown that one can uniquely determine the convex hull of an unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Masaru Ikehata

Anisotropic thin sheets of materials possess intriguing properties because of their ability to modify the phase, amplitude and polarization of incident waves. Such sheets are usually modeled by imposing transmission conditions of resistive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Fioralba Cakoni , Peter Monk

In 2D acoustic and elastodynamic problems the spatial variability of a constitutive parameter such as the mass density makes it difficult to employ boundary integral and domain integral techniques to solve the forward and inverse wave…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-03-25 Armand Wirgin

We consider the inverse random potential scattering problem for the two- and three-dimensional biharmonic wave equation in lossy media. The potential is assumed to be a microlocally isotropic Gaussian rough field. The main contributions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Peijun Li , Xu Wang

Wavefront shaping techniques allow waves to be focused on a diffraction-limited target deep inside disordered media. To identify the target position, a guidestar is required that typically emits a frequency-shifted signal. Here we present a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Antton Goïcoechea , Jakob Hüpfl , Stefan Rotter , François Sarrazin , Matthieu Davy

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 consider the inverse scattering problem to reconstruct a local perturbation of a given inhomogeneous periodic layer in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$, using near field measurements of the scattered wave on an open set of the boundary above the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Alexander Konschin , Armin Lechleiter

Similar to the obstacle or medium scattering problems, an important property of the phaseless far field patterns for source scattering problems is the translation invariance. Thus it is impossible to reconstruct the location of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

We study the scattering behavior of an anisotropic inhomogeneous Lipschitz medium at a fixed wave number, continuing our previous work [SIAM J. Math. Anal., 56(4):4834-4853, 2024] and using free boundary techniques from [arXiv:2506.22328].…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Pu-Zhao Kow , Mikko Salo , Henrik Shahgholian

In this paper, we are concerned with the inverse electromagnetic scattering problem of recovering a complex scatterer by the corresponding electric far-field data. The complex scatterer consists of an inhomogeneous medium and a possibly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Youjun Deng , Hongyu Liu , Xiaodong Liu

We develop two inverse scattering schemes for locating multiple electromagnetic (EM) scatterers by the electric far-field measurement corresponding to a single incident/detecting plane wave. The first scheme is for locating scatterers of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-28 Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu , Zaijiu Shang , Hongpeng Sun