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This paper considers the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic plane waves by a bounded, inhomogeneous, penetrable obstacle with embedded objects inside. A new method is proposed to prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang , Jiaqing Yang

Scalar wave scattering by many small particles of arbitrary shapes with impedance boundary condition is studied. The problem is solved asymptotically and numerically under the assumptions a << d << lambda, where k = 2pi/lambda is the wave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Alexander Ramm , Nhan Tran

We consider the propagation of acoustic waves at a given wavenumber in a waveguide which is unbounded in one direction. We explain how to construct penetrable obstacles characterized by a physical coefficient $\rho$ which are invisible in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Antoine Bera , Antoine-Sophie Bonnet-BenDhia , Lucas Chesnel

Many supervised machine learning methods have revolutionised the empirical modelling of complex systems. These empirical models, however, are usually "black boxes" and provide only limited physical explanations about the underlying systems.…

Our goal is to review the known theory on the one-dimensional obstacle problem for the wave equation, and to discuss some extensions. We introduce the setting established by Schatzman within which existence and uniqueness of solutions can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Xavier Fernández-Real , Alessio Figalli

We investigate the problem of distinguishing between separable and entangled states of two quantum wave packets, one of which falls into a black hole. Intuitively, one might expect the two scenarios to be indistinguishable, since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Patryk Michalski , Andrzej Dragan

This paper is concerning the inverse conductive scattering of acoustic waves by a bounded inhomogeneous object with possibly embedded obstacles inside. A new uniqueness theorem is proved that the conductive object is uniquely determined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Chengyu Wu , Jiaqing Yang

It is proved that if the scattering amplitudes at a fixed wavenumber for two obstacles from a certain large class of obstacles differ a little, than the obstacles differ a little. Error estimate is given. It is proved that there is an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm

We prove existence of weak solutions to the obstacle problem for semilinear wave equations (including the fractional case) by using a suitable approximating scheme in the spirit of minimizing movements. This extends the results in [9],…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Mauro Bonafini , Van Phu Cuong Le , Matteo Novaga , Giandomenico Orlandi

This work describes and analyzes the domain derivative for a time-dependent acoustic scattering problem. We study the nonlinear operator that maps a sound-soft scattering object to the solution of the time-dependent wave equation evaluated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Marvin Knöller , Jörg Nick

This work is concerned with an inverse elastic scattering problem of identifying the unknown rigid obstacle embedded in an open space filled with a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium. A Newton-type iteration method relying on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Hongyu Liu , Deyue Zhang

This work considers a time domain inverse acoustic obstacle scattering problem due to passive data. Motivated by the Helmholtz-Kirchhoff identity in the frequency domain, we propose to relate the time domain measurement data in passive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Xiaoli Liu , Shixu Meng , Jialu Tian , Bo Zhang

An inverse problem of finding an obstacle and the boundary condition on its surface from the fixed-energy scattering data is studied. A new method is developed for a proof of the uniqueness results. The method does not use the discreteness…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm

We introduce a model detector which registers the passage of a particle through the detector location, without substantially perturbing the particle wave function. (The exact time of passage is not determined in such measurements.) We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Alexander Vilenkin , Serge Winitzki

In this paper, we give a positive answer to a longstanding open problem for determining the shape of an obstacle from the knowledge of the far field pattern for the scattering of time-harmonic elastic wave. We show that the elastic far…

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

This paper is concerned with the inverse obstacle scattering problem with phaseless far-field data at a fixed frequency. The main difficulty of this problem is the so-called translation invariance property of the modulus of the far-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

In this paper, we consider the 1D wave equation where the spatial domain is a bounded interval. Assuming the initial conditions to be known, we are here interested in identifying an unknown source term, while we take the Neumann derivative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-30 Marianne Chapouly , Mazyar Mirrahimi

A non-conventional shape optimization approach is introduced to address the identification of an obstacle immersed in a fluid described by the Stokes equation within a larger bounded domain, relying on boundary measurements on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago , Lekbir Afraites , Hirofumi Notsu