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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 paper concerns the inverse source problems for the time-harmonic elastic and electromagnetic wave equations. The goal is to determine the external force and the electric current density from boundary measurements of the radiated wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Gang Bao , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

This paper gives a note on an application of the enclosure method to an inverse obstacle scattering problem governed by the Helmholtz equation in two dimensions. It is shown that one can uniquely determine the convex hull of an unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Masaru Ikehata

We prove a stability estimate of logarithmic type for the inverse problem consisting in the determination of the surface impedance of an obstacle from the scattering amplitude. We present a simple and direct proof which is essentially based…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Mourad Bellassoued , Mourad Choulli , Aymen Jbalia

A one-dimensional generalized nonlinear Schroedinger equation is considered, and the corresponding inverse scattering problem is analyzed when the potential is compactly supported and depends on the wave function. The unique recovery of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tuncay Aktosun , Vassilis G. Papanicolaou , Vassilis Zisis

This paper is concerned with uniqueness in inverse acoustic scattering with phaseless far-field data at a fixed frequency. In our previous work ({\em SIAM J. Appl. Math. \bf78} (2018), 1737-1753), by utilizing spectral properties of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Xiaoxu Xu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

The first part of this paper is concerned with the uniqueness to inverse time-harmonic elastic scattering from bounded rigid obstacles in two dimensions. It is proved that a connected polygonal obstacle can be uniquely identified by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Johannes Elschner , Guanghui Hu

This paper investigates the inverse scattering problem for the magnetic Schr\"odinger equation. We first establish the well-posedness of the direct problem through a variational approach under physically meaningful assumptions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Chaohua Duan , Zhen Xue

The paper is concerned with an inverse point source problem for the Helmholtz equation. It consists of recovering the locations and amplitudes of a finite number of radiative point sources inside a given inhomogeneous medium from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Gang Bao , Yuantong Liu , Faouzi Triki

This paper is concerned with the direct and inverse random source scattering problems for elastic waves where the source is assumed to be driven by an additive white noise. Given the source, the direct problem is to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Gang Bao , Chuchu Chen , Peijun Li

In this paper we consider the inverse scattering problem at a fixed energy for the Schr\"odinger equation with a long-range potential in $\ere^d, d\geq 3$. We prove that the long-range part can be uniquely reconstructed from the leading…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Ricardo Weder , Dimitri Yafaev

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

This paper is concerned with the uniqueness of inverse acoustic scattering problem for cavities with the modulus of the near-fields. With the aid of the reference ball technique and the superpositions of two point sources as the incident…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Deyue Zhang , Yinglin Wang , Yukun Guo , Jingzhi Li

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

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

We consider the Schr\"odinger equation with a multipoint potential of the Bethe-Peierls-Thomas-Fermi type. We show that such a potential in dimension d=2 or d=3 is uniquely determined by its scattering amplitude at a fixed positive energy.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Pei-Cheng Kuo , Roman G. Novikov

In this work, we consider the time-harmonic inverse elastic source problem of a fixed frequency for the Navier equation in two dimensions. We show that a convex polygon can be uniquely determined by a single far field measurement. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Jianli Xiang

We discuss a time-harmonic inverse scattering problem for the Helmholtz equation with compactly supported penetrable and possibly inhomogeneous scattering objects in an unbounded homogeneous background medium, and we develop a monotonicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Roland Griesmaier , Bastian Harrach

The paper aims a logarithmic stability estimate for the inverse source problem of the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation with attenuation factor in a two layer medium. We establish a stability by using multiple frequencies at the two end…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Mozhgan Nora Entekhabi , Ajith Gunaratne

The present manuscript consists of inverse problems for a coupled system of wave equations with potential in $\mathbb{R}^3$. By establishing the fundamental solution to the aforementioned operator, we study the uniqueness aspects of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Rahul Bhardwaj , Manmohan Vashisth