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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

This paper addresses the inverse obstacle scattering problem of simultaneously reconstructing the obstacle geometry and boundary conditions from multi-frequency near-field backscattering data. We first establish rigorous high-frequency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Jialei Li , Xiaodong Liu

We develop a novel wave imaging scheme for reconstructing the shape of an inhomogeneous scatterer and we consider the inverse acoustic obstacle scattering problem as a prototype model for our study. There exists a wealth of reconstruction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Hongyu Liu , Xiaodong Liu , Xianchao Wang , Yuliang Wang

We consider the inverse elastic scattering problems using the far field data due to one incident plane wave. A simple method is proposed to reconstruct the location and size of the obstacle using different components of the far field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-09 J Liu , X. Liu , J. Sun

We present a solution method for the inverse scattering problem for integrable two-dimensional relativistic quantum field theories, specified in terms of a given massive single particle spectrum and a factorizing S-matrix. An arbitrary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Sabina Alazzawi , Gandalf Lechner

We present Wideband Back-Projection Diffusion, an end-to-end probabilistic framework for approximating the posterior distribution induced by the inverse scattering map from wideband scattering data. This framework produces highly accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Borong Zhang , Martín Guerra , Qin Li , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

In this work, we consider the inverse electromagnetic scattering problem for a magneto-dielectric cylinder covering an impedance cylinder of arbitrary shape. We solve it by introducing a divide-and-conquer framework using specially designed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Leonidas Mindrinos , Nikolaos Pallikarakis , Nikolaos L Tsitsas

We consider the problem of reconstructing the seabed topography from observations of surface gravity waves. We formulate the problem as a classical inverse scattering problem using the mild-slope equation, and analyze the topographic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Adrian Kirkeby

This paper is devoted to the algorithmic development of inverse elastic scattering problems. We focus on reconstructing the locations and shapes of elastic scatterers with known dictionary data for the nearly incompressible materials. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Li Jingzhi , Liu Hongyu , Sun Hongpeng

We present a perturbative technique for modeling the scattering of light by a nonlinear material. This approach eliminates the need for an iterative algorithm to solve the fully coupled nonlinear problem. We demonstrate its effectiveness in…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-01 Jérémy Itier , Gilles Renversez , Frédéric Zolla

In this paper we study the noncompact star-type graph with perturbed radial Schrodinger equation on each ray and the matching conditions of some special form at the vertex. The results include the uniqueness theorem and constructive…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Mikhail Ignatyev

We obtain a nonperturbative, analytical solution to integral equation of scattering theory by assuming the field within the scattering object is a spherical wave with a scattering amplitude equal to that of the far field. This approximation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Brian Slovick , Srini Krishnamurthy

In this work, we consider the problem of reconstructing the shape of a three dimensional impenetrable sound-soft axis-symmetric obstacle from measurements of the scattered field at multiple frequencies. This problem has important…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Carlos Borges , Jun Lai

Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by heterogeneous media consisting of linear or nonlinear point scatterers and extended obstacles. A generalized Foldy-Lax formulation is developed to take fully into account of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Jun Lai , Ming Li , Peijun Li , Wei Li

In this paper we introduce a new fix point iteration scheme for solving nonlinear electromagnetic scattering problems. The method is based on a spectral formulation of Maxwell's equations called the Bidirectional Pulse Propagation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Per Kristen Jakobsen

Bayesian imaging inverse problems in astrophysics and cosmology remain challenging, particularly in low-data regimes, due to complex forward operators and the frequent lack of well-motivated priors for non-Gaussian signals. In this paper,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sébastien Pierre , Erwan Allys , Pablo Richard , Roman Soletskyi , Alexandros Tsouros

We present in this paper a novel numerical reconstruction method for solving a 3D coefficient inverse problem with scattering data generated by a single direction of the incident plane wave. This inverse problem is well-known to be a highly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Michael V. Klibanov , Aleksandr E. Kolesov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen

In this paper, we study a fast approximate inference method based on expectation propagation for exploring the posterior probability distribution arising from the Bayesian formulation of nonlinear inverse problems. It is capable of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Matthias Gehre , Bangti Jin

This paper is concerned with inverse acoustic scattering problem of inferring the position and shape of a sound-soft obstacle from phaseless far-field data. We propose the Bayesian approach to recover sound-soft disks, line cracks and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Zhipeng Yang , Xinping Gui , Ju Ming , Guanghui Hu

We study the numerical solution of forward and inverse acoustic scattering problems by randomly shaped obstacles in three-dimensional space using a fast isogeometric boundary element method. Within the isogeometric framework, realizations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Jürgen Dölz , Helmut Harbrecht , Carlos Jerez-Hanckes , Michael Multerer