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This paper is concerned with a numerical method for a 3D coefficient inverse problem with phaseless scattering data. These are multi-frequency data generated by a single direction of the incident plane wave. Our numerical procedure consists…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen

This report extends our recent progress in tackling a challenging 3D inverse scattering problem governed by the Helmholtz equation. Our target application is to reconstruct dielectric constants, electric conductivities and shapes of front…

This paper is concerned with the convergence of a series associated with a certain version of the convexification method. That version has been recently developed by the research group of the first author for solving coefficient inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen

In a series of publications of the second author, including some with coauthors, globally strictly convex Tikhonov-like functionals were constructed for some nonlinear ill-posed problems. The main element of such a functional is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Anatoly B. Bakushinskii , Michael V. Klibanov , Nikolaj A. Koshev

The inverse problem of estimating dielectric constants of explosives using boundary measurements of one component of the scattered electric field is addressed. It is formulated as a coefficient inverse problem for a hyperbolic differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 Michael V. Klibanov , Nguyen Trung Thành

The problem of imaging of a moving target is formulated as a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a hyperbolic equation with its coefficient depending on all three spatial variables and time. As the initial condition, the point source running…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Vladimir G. Romanov , Zhipeng Yang

A Coefficient Inverse Problem for the radiative transport equation is considered. The globally convergent numerical method, the so-called convexification, is developed. For the first time, the viscosity solution is considered for a boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Zhipeng Yang

The forward problem here is the Cauchy problem for a 1D hyperbolic PDE with a variable coefficient in the principal part of the operator. That coefficient is the spatially distributed dielectric constant. The inverse problem consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Alexey Smirnov , Michael Klibanov , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

This paper addresses the challenging and interesting inverse problem of reconstructing the spatially varying dielectric constant of a medium from phaseless backscattering measurements generated by single-point illumination. The underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Thuy T. Le , Phuong M. Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen

We study the global convergence of the gradient descent method of the minimization of strictly convex functionals on an open and bounded set of a Hilbert space. Such results are unknown for this type of sets, unlike the case of the entire…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Thuy T. Le , Loc. H. Nguyen

The key tool of this paper is a new Carleman estimate for an arbitrary parabolic operator of the second order for the case of reversed time data. This estimate works on an arbitrary time interval. On the other hand, the previously known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Michael V. Klibanov , Anatoly G. Yagola

This article develops the numerical and theoretical study of a reconstruction algorithm of a potential in a wave equation from boundary measurements, using a cost functional built on weighted energy terms coming from a Carleman estimate.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Lucie Baudouin , Maya de Buhan , Sylvain Ervedoza

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

An $\left( n+1\right) -$D coefficient inverse problem for the radiative stationary transport equation is considered for the first time. A globally convergent so-called convexification numerical \ method is developed and its convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Loc H. Nguyen , Zhipeng Yang

In this work, we construct the Born and inverse Born approximation and series to recover two function-valued coefficients in the Helmholtz equation for inverse scattering problems from the scattering data at two different frequencies. An…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Fioralba Cakoni , Shixu Meng , Zehui Zhou

It is proposed to monitor spatial and temporal spreads of epidemics via solution of a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a system of three coupled nonlinear parabolic equations. To solve this problem numerically, a version of the so-called…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Michael V. Klibanov , Trung Truong

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

A 3D coefficient inverse problem for a hyperbolic equation with non-overdetermined data is considered. The forward problem is the Cauchy problems with the initial condition the delta function concentrated at a single plane (i.e. the plane…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Michael V. Klibanov , Vladimir G. Romanov

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

This paper gives a remark on the Enclosure Method by considering inverse obstacle scattering problems with a single incident wave whose governing equation is given by the Helmholtz equation in two dimensions. It is concerned with the…

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