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The inverse acoustic scattering problems using multi-frequency backscattering far field patterns at isolated directions are studied. The underlying object could be point like scatterers, small scatterers, extended inhomogeneities and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu

We establish an optimal \emph{Widder theory} for a weighted porous medium equation with rough and inhomogeneous density that may be singular at a point and tends to zero at spatial infinity. Specifically, for this equation, we identify a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Gabriele Grillo , Matteo Muratori , Troy Petitt , Nikita Simonov

The Klein-Gordon equation for a scalar field sourced by a static spherically symmetric background is an interesting second-order differential equation with applications in particle physics, astrophysics, and elsewhere. Here we present…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Peter B. Denton

We obtain a generalized version of an inequality, first derived by C. Bandle in the analytic setting, for weak subsolutions of a singular Liouville-type equation. As an application we obtain a new proof of the Alexandrov isoperimetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Daniele Bartolucci , Daniele Castorina

This paper investigates inverse source problems for time-dependent electromagnetic waves governed by Maxwell's equations. After applying the Fourier transform with respect to time, the problem leads to a frequency-domain electromagnetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Fenglin Sun , Hongxia Guo

We consider the inverse problem of the reconstruction of the spatially distributed dielectric constant $\varepsilon_{r}\left(\mathbf{x}\right), \ \mathbf{x}\in \mathbb{R}^{3}$, which is an unknown coefficient in the Maxwell's equations,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Larisa Beilina , Nguyen Trung Thành , Michael V. Klibanov , John Bondestam Malmberg

The problem of reconstruction of an unknown refractive index $k(x)$ of an inhomogeneous solid $P$ is considered. The refractive index is assumed to be a piecewise-H\"{o}lder function The original boundary value problem for the Helmholtz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Mikhail Medvedik , Yury Smirnov , Aleksei Tsupak

We consider radially symmetric capillary surfaces that are described by bounded generating curves. We use the arc-length representation of the differential equations for these surfaces to allow for vertical points and inflection points…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Jonas Haug , Ray Treinen

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximation of the Steklov eigenvalue problem that arises in inverse acoustic scattering. The underlying scattering problem is for an inhomogeneous isotropic medium. These eigenvalues have been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Isaac Harris

We establish that solving an optimal transportation problem in which the source and target densities are defined on manifolds with different dimensions, is equivalent to solving a new nonlocal analog of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Robert J McCann , Brendan Pass

We solve explicitly a certain minimization problem for probability measures involving an interaction energy that is repulsive at short distances and attractive at large distances. We complement earlier works by showing that part of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Rupert L. Frank , Ryan W. Matzke

This paper is concerned with the inverse acoustic scattering problems by an obstacle or a cavity with a sound-soft or a sound-hard boundary. A direct imaging method relying on the boundary conditions is proposed for reconstructing the shape…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Deyue Zhang , Yue Wu , Yinglin Wang , Yukun Guo

We determine the space-dependent source term for a two-parameter fractional diffusion problem subject to nonlocal non-self-adjoint boundary conditions and two local time-distinct datum. A bi-orthogonal pair of bases is used to construct a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Khaled M. Furati , Olaniyi S. Iyiola , Kassem Mustapha

In this work, we study a new spectral Petrov-Galerkin approximation of space-time fractional reaction-diffusion equations with viscosity terms built by Riemann-Liouville fractional-order derivatives. The proposed method is reliant on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Zhe Yu , Boying Wu , Jiebao Sun , Wenjie Liu

The influence of a random environment on the dynamics of a fluctuating rough surface is investigated using a field theoretic renormalization group. The environment motion is modelled by the stochastic Navier--Stokes equation, which includes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-18 N. V. Antonov , A. A. Babakin , N. M. Gulitskiy , P. I. Kakin

We present a regular cubic lattice solution to Einstein field equations that is exact at second order in a small parameter. We show that this solution is kinematically equivalent to the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) solution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-09 J. Larena

We consider the inverse problem of recovering a potential by measuring the response at a point to a source located at the same point and then varying the point on the surface of a sphere. This is a similar to the inverse back-scattering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Rakesh , Gunther Uhlmann

This work studies an inverse scattering problem when limited-aperture data are available that are from just one or a few incident fields. This inverse problem is highly ill-posed due to the limited receivers and a few incident fields…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Jianfeng Ning , Jun Zou

Given a fixed $\alpha \in (0,1)$, we study the inverse problem of recovering the isometry class of a smooth closed and connected Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, given the knowledge of a source-to-solution map for the fractional Laplace…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Ali Feizmohammadi

This paper is concerned with analysis of electromagnetic wave scattering by an obstacle which is embedded in a two-layered lossy medium separated by an unbounded rough surface. Given a dipole point source, the direct problem is to determine…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Peijun Li , Jue Wang , Lei Zhang