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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…

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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

We discuss a time-harmonic inverse scattering problem for the Helmholtz equation with compactly supported penetrable and possibly inhomogeneous scattering objects in an unbounded homogeneous background medium, and we develop a monotonicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Roland Griesmaier , Bastian Harrach

We consider the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation with a potential satisfying the standard assumptions of the inverse scattering theory and supported on the half-line $x\ge 0$. For this equation at fixed positive energy we give…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Roman Novikov

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

Passive imaging involves recording waves generated by uncontrolled, random sources and utilizing correlations of such waves to image the medium through which they propagate. In this paper, we focus on passive inverse obstacle scattering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Thorsten Hohage , Meng Liu

Consider time-harmonic acoustic scattering from a bounded penetrable obstacle $D\subset \mathbb R^N$ embedded in a homogeneous background medium. The index of refraction characterizing the material inside $D$ is supposed to be H\"older…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Guanghui Hu , Mikko Salo , Esa V. Vesalainen

It is proved that a convex polyhedral scatterer of impedance type can be uniquely determined by the electric far-field pattern of a non-vanishing incident field. The incoming wave is allowed to bean electromagnetic plane wave, a vector…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Guang-Hui Hu , Manmohan Vashisth , Jiaqing Yang

We are concerned with the inverse scattering problem of recovering an inhomogeneous medium by the associated acoustic wave measurement. We prove that under certain assumptions, a single far-field pattern determines the values of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Emilia Blåsten , Hongyu Liu

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

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

We consider the scattering problem governed by the Helmholtz equation with inhomogeneity in both `conductivity' in the divergence form and `potential' in the lower order term. The support of the inhomogeneity is assumed to contain a convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Fioralba Cakoni , Jingni Xiao

This paper focuses on phase retrieval from phaseless total-field data in biharmonic scattering problems. We prove that a phased biharmonic wave can be uniquely determined by the modulus of the total biharmonic wave within a nonempty domain.…

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We consider the Sommerfeld problem of diffraction by an opaque half-plane with a real wavenumber interpreting it as the limiting case, as time tends to infinity, of the corresponding time-dependent diffraction problem. We prove that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 A. Merzon , P. Zhevandrov , J. E. De la Paz Méndez , T. J. Villalba Vega

We consider the Bayesian approach to the inverse problem of recovering the shape of an object from measurements of its scattered acoustic field. Working in the time-harmonic setting, we focus on a Helmholtz transmission problem and then…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Safiere Kuijpers , Laura Scarabosio

In this paper, we give a positive answer to a challenging open problem for recovering unknown obstacle (which is usually referred to as a scatterer) by acoustic wave probe associated to the Helmholtz equation. We show that the acoustic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Genqian Liu

It is proved that a connected polygonal obstacle coated by thin layers together with its surface impedance function can be determined uniquely from the far field pattern of a single incident plane wave. Our proof is based on the Schwarz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Guang-Hui Hu , Manmohan Vashisth

In this paper we consider the inverse electromagnetic scattering for a cavity surrounded by an inhomogeneous medium in three dimensions. The measurements are scattered wave fields measured on some surface inside the cavity, where such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Fang Zeng , Shixu Meng

In this paper, we consider inverse time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic scattering from locally perturbed rough surfaces in three dimensions. The scattering interface is supposed to be the graph of a Lipschitz continuous function with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Yu Zhao , Guanghui Hu , Baoqiang Yan