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Solving the wave equation is essential to seismic imaging and inversion. The numerical solution of the Helmholtz equation, fundamental to this process, often encounters significant computational and memory challenges. We propose an…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xinquan Huang , Tariq Alkhalifah

The problem to be studied in this work is within the context of coefficient identification problems for the wave equation. More precisely, we consider the problem of reconstruction of the refractive index (or equivalently, the dielectric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Nguyen Trung Thành , Larisa Beilina , Michael V. Klibanov , Michael A. Fiddy

The article deals with a classical inverse problem: the computation of the refractive index of a medium from ultrasound time-of-flight (TOF) measurements. This problem is very popular in seismics but also for tomographic problems in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Udo Schroeder , Thomas Schuster

Diffraction tomography is a noninvasive technique that estimates the refractive indices of unknown objects and involves an inverse-scattering problem governed by the wave equation. Recent works have shown the benefit of nonlinear models of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Tao Hong , Thanh-an Pham , Eran Treister , Michael Unser

We consider the inverse scattering problem for inhomogeneous media of compact support governed by the fractional s-Helmholtz equation, with $0<s<1$, in dimensions $d=1,2,3$. In particular, we study the determination of the support of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Dana Zilberberg

We present an alternative numerical reconstruction algorithm for direct tomographic reconstruction of a sample refractive indices from the measured intensities of its far-field coherent diffraction patterns. We formulate the well-known…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 T. Ramos , Bastian E. Grønager , Martin Skovgaard Andersen , J. W. Andreasen

We study an inverse scattering problem for a generic hyperbolic system of equations with an unknown coefficient called the reflectivity. The solution of the system models waves (sound, electromagnetic or elastic), and the reflectivity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky , Jörn Zimmerling

In this paper we present a new highly efficient calculation method for the far field amplitude pattern that arises from scattering problems governed by the d-dimensional Helmholtz equation and, by extension, Schr\"odinger's equation. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-06 Siegfried Cools , Bram Reps , Wim Vanroose

Consider the two-dimensional inverse elastic wave scattering by an infinite rough surface with a Dirichlet boundary condition. A non-interative sampling technique is proposed for detecting the rough surface by taking elastic wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Tielei Zhu , Jiaqing Yang

In this work we shall review the (phased) inverse scattering problem and then pursue the phaseless reconstruction from far-field data with the help of the concept of scattering coefficients. We perform sensitivity, resolution and stability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Habib Ammari , Yat Tin Chow , Jun Zou

We propose a method for optical nano-imaging in which the structure of a three-dimensional inhomogeneous medium may be recovered from far-field power measurements. Neither phase control of the illuminating field nor phase measurements of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-02 Alexander A. Govyadinov , George Y. Panasyuk , John C. Schotland

Wave propagation and acoustic scattering problems require vast computational resources to be solved accurately at high frequencies. Asymptotic methods can make this cost potentially frequency independent by explicitly extracting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Daan Huybrechs , Peter Opsomer

We consider quantum and acoustic wave propagation at fixed frequency for compactly supported scatterers in dimension $d\ge 2$. In these framework we give explicit formulas for phase recovering from appropriate phaseless scattering data. As…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Roman Novikov

A novel numerical method for solving inverse scattering problem with fixed-energy data is proposed. The method contains a new important concept: the stability index of the inversion problem. This is a number, computed from the data, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Gutman , A. G. Ramm , W. Scheid

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of determining the shape of penetrable periodic scatterers from scattered field data. We propose a sampling method with a novel indicator function for solving this inverse problem. This…

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This paper is concerned with uniqueness, phase retrieval and shape reconstruction methods for solving inverse electromagnetic source scattering problems with multi-frequency sparse phased or phaseless far field data. With the phased data,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu

In this paper, a reconstruction method for the spatially distributed dielectric constant of a medium from the back scattering wave field in the frequency domain is considered. Our approach is to propose a globally convergent algorithm,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

The general space-time evolution of the scattering of an incident acoustic plane wave pulse by an arbitrary configuration of targets is treated by employing a recently developed non-singular boundary integral method to solve the Helmholtz…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Evert Klaseboer , Shahrokh Sepehrirahnama , Derek Y. C. Chan

In this paper, we propose a new nonuniform mesh method to simulate acoustic scattering problems in two dimensional periodic structures with non-periodic incident fields numerically. As existing methods are difficult to extend to higher…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Tilo Arens , Ruming Zhang

This work is dedicated to uniqueness and numerical algorithms for determining the point sources of the biharmonic wave equation using scattered fields at sparse sensors. We first show that the point sources in both $\mathbb{R}^2$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Xiaodong Liu , Qingxiang Shi , Jing Wang