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We consider the electromagnetic scattering from a convex polyhedral PEC or PMC obstacle due to a time-harmonic incident plane wave. It is shown that the modulus of the far-field pattern in the backscattering aperture possesses a certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu , Yuliang Wang

This article addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering both the wave speed coefficient and an unknown initial condition (acting as the source) for the multidimensional wave equation from a single passive boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yavar Kian , Hongyu Liu

We consider time-harmonic wave scattering from an inhomogeneous isotropic medium supported in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ ($N\geq 2$). {In a subregion $D\Subset\Omega$, the medium is supposed to be lossy and have a large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Hongyu Liu , Zaijiu Shang , Hongpeng Sun , Jun Zou

An inverse boundary value problem for the 1+1 dimensional wave equation $(\partial_t^2 - c(x)^2 \partial_x^2)u(x,t)=0,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}_+$ is considered. We give a discrete regularization strategy to recover wave speed $c(x)$ when we are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Jussi Korpela , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen

Causality creates an asymmetry between space and time, even though the wave equation treats them on equal footing. In this work, we leverage this asymmetry to construct a cross-mapping between space and time. This cross-mapping is applied…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-09 Mohamed A. Salem , Christophe Caloz

In this paper, we investigate the problem of electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering by one and many small perfectly conducting bodies and present a numerical method for solving it. For the case of one body, the problem is solved for a body of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Nhan Tran

In the solar convection zone acoustic waves are scattered by turbulent sound speed fluctuations. In this paper the scattering of waves by convective cells is treated using Rytov's technique. Particular care is taken to include diffraction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Brüggen

We study the inverse problem of determining both the source of a wave and its speed inside a medium from measurements of the solution of the wave equation on the boundary. This problem arises in photoacoustic and thermoacoustic tomography,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Christina Knox , Amir Moradifam

This paper deals with the controllability for a one-dimensional wave equation with mixed boundary conditions in a non-cylindrical domain. This equation models small vibrations of a string where an endpoint is fixed and the other is moving.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Isaías Pereira de Jesus

When a plane electromagnetic wave impinges upon a diffraction grating or other periodic structures, reflected and transmitted waves propagate away from the structure in different radiation channels. A diffraction anomaly occurs when the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Zitao Mai , Ya Yan Lu

The spatial structure of the inhomogeneity in a disordered medium determines how waves scatter and propagate in it. We present a theoretical model of how the Fourier components of the disorder control wave scattering in a two-dimensional…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-03 Zhun-Yong Ong

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem to recover a compactly supported Schr{\"o}dinger potential given the differential scattering cross section, i.e. the modulus, but not the phase of the scattering amplitude. To compensate for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Alexey Agaltsov , Thorsten Hohage , Roman Novikov

The fixed angle inverse scattering problem for a velocity consists in determining a sound speed, or a Riemannian metric up to diffeomorphism, from measurements obtained by probing the medium with a single plane wave. This is a formally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Lauri Oksanen , Rakesh , Mikko Salo

The paper considers a stabilizing stochastic control which can be applied to a variety of unstable and even chaotic maps. Compared to previous methods introducing control by noise, we relax assumptions on the class of maps, as well as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Elena Braverman , Alexandra Rodkina

This paper is concerned with reconstructing an acoustic obstacle and its excitation sources from the phaseless near-field measurements. By supplementing some artificial sources to the inverse scattering system, this co-inversion problem can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Deyue Zhang , Yue Wu , Yukun Guo

Space-time varying media with moving interfaces unlock new ways to manipulate electromagnetic waves. Yet, analytical solutions have been mostly limited to interfaces moving at constant velocity or constant proper acceleration. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-10 Klaas De Kinder , Amir Bahrami , Christophe Caloz

For passive, lossless impenetrable metasurfaces, a design technique for arbitrary beam control of receiving, guiding, and launching is presented. Arbitrary control is enabled by a custom surface wave in an orthogonal polarization such that…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-01 Do-Hoon Kwon , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Inverse medium scattering is an ill-posed, nonlinear wave-based imaging problem arising in medical imaging, remote sensing, and non-destructive testing. Machine learning (ML) methods offer increased inference speed and flexibility in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Olivia Tsang , Owen Melia , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Jeremy Hoskins , Yuehaw Khoo , Rebecca Willett

Scattering obscures information carried by wave by producing a speckle pattern, posing a common challenge across various fields, including microscopy and astronomy. Traditional methods for extracting information from speckles often rely on…

A new sampling method for inverse scattering problems is proposed to process far field data of one incident wave. As the linear sampling method, the method sets up ill-posed integral equations and uses the (approximate) solutions to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Juan Liu , Jiguang Sun