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Traditionally, the diffraction of a scalar wave satisfying Helmholtz equation through an aperture on an otherwise black screen can be solved approximately by Kirchhoff's integral over the aperture. Rubinowicz, on the other hand, was able to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 Yi-Chuan Lu

This paper is concerned with an inverse wavenumber/frequency-dependent source problem for the Helmholtz equation. In two and three dimensions, the unknown source term is supposed to be compactly supported in spatial variables but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Mengjie Zhao , Suliang Si , Guanghui Hu

This paper investigates an inverse random source problem for the stochastic fractional Helmholtz equation. The source is modeled as a centered, complex-valued, microlocally isotropic generalized Gaussian random field whose covariance and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Peijun Li , Zhenqian Li

Motivated by non-destructive testing of optical fiber, we consider the problem of determining the index of refraction of a two-dimensional medium from magnitude of the total field resulting from known incident plane waves at a fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Yat Tin Chow , Fadil Santosa , Gunther Uhlmann

This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problem which aims to determine the spatially distributed dielectric constant coefficient of the 2D Helmholtz equation from multifrequency backscatter data associated with a single…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Trung Truong , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Michael Klibanov

For the first time, we develop in this paper the globally convergent convexification numerical method for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for the 3D Helmholtz equation for the case when the backscattering data are generated by a point source…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Vo Anh Khoa , Michael Victor Klibanov , Loc Hoang Nguyen

We study the seismic inverse problem for the recovery of subsurface properties in acoustic media. In order to reduce the ill-posedness of the problem, the heterogeneous wave speed parameter to be recovered is represented using a limited…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Florian Faucher , Otmar Scherzer , Hélène Barucq

The goal of this paper is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from complex-valued scattered wave field by solving a 3D coefficient inverse problem for the Helmholtz equation at multi-frequencies. The data are generated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen , Hui Liu

This paper investigates the inverse scattering problem of time-harmonic plane waves incident on a perfectly reflecting random periodic structure. To simulate random perturbations arising from manufacturing defects and surface wear in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Zhiqi Sun , Yiwen Lin

This paper investigates the problem of reconstructing a random source from statistical phaseless data for the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation. The major challenge of this problem is non-uniqueness, which we overcome through a reference…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Qiao-Ping Chen , Hongyu Liu , Zejun Sun , Li-Li Wang , Guang-Hui Zheng

In this paper, we prove the local uniqueness of an inverse problem arising in the nonstationary flow of a nonhomogeneous incompressible asymmetric fluid in a bounded domain with smooth boundary. The direct problem is an initial-boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Aníbal Coronel , Marko Rojas-Medar

This paper is concerned with uniqueness for reconstructing a periodic inhomogeneous medium covered on a perfectly conducting plate. We deal with the problem in the frame of time-harmonic Maxwell systems without TE or TM polarization. An…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-17 Guanghui Hu , Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang

This paper is concerned with an inverse source problem for the three-dimensional Helmholtz equation by a single boundary measurement at a fixed frequency. We show the Lipschitz stability under the assumption that the source function is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Peijun Li , Jian Zhai , Yue Zhao

An inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation in a bounded domain is considered. The problem is to extract information about an unknown obstacle embedded in the domain with unknown impedance boundary condition (the Robin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-16 Masaru Ikehata

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

The Cauchy problem for the inhomogeneous Helmholtz equation with non-uniform refraction index is considered. The ill-posedness of this problem is tackled by means of the variational form of mollification. This approach is proved to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Pierre Marechal , Walter Simo Tao Lee , Faouzi Triki

This paper is dedicated to addressing the simultaneous inversion problem involving the initial value and space-dependent source term in a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation. Firstly, we establish the uniqueness of the inverse problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Yun Zhang , Xiaoli Feng , Xiongbin Yan

This paper is concerned with the classical inverse scattering problem to recover the refractive index of a medium given near or far field measurements of scattered time-harmonic acoustic waves. It contains the first rigorous proof of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Thorsten Hohage , Frederic Weidling

We consider the wave scattering and inverse scattering in an inhomogeneous medium embedded a homogeneous droplet with a small size, which is modeled by a constant mass density and a small bulk modulus. Based on the Lippmann-Schwinger…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Zhe Wang , Ahcene Ghandriche , Jijun Liu

A 3-D inverse medium problem in the frequency domain is considered. Another name for this problem is Coefficient Inverse Problem. The goal is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from scattering data. Potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Michael V. Klibanov , Hui Liu , Loc H. Nguyen