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We consider an isotropic elastic medium occupying a bounded domain D whose density and Lam\'e parameters are piecewise smooth. In the elastic wave initial value inverse problem, we are given the solution operator for the elastic wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Sombuddha Bhattacharyya , Maarten V. de Hoop , Vitaly Katsnelson , Gunther Uhlmann

We consider the inverse boundary value problem for the system of equations describing elastic waves in isotropic media on a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^3$ via a finite-time Laplace transform. The data is the dynamical Dirichlet-to-Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Maarten V. de Hoop , Gen Nakamura , Jian Zhai

Let $c$ be a piecewise smooth wave speed on $\mathbb R^n$, unknown inside a domain $\Omega$. We are given the solution operator for the scalar wave equation $(\partial_t^2-c^2\Delta)u=0$, but only outside $\Omega$ and only for initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Peter Caday , Maarten V. de Hoop , Vitaly Katsnelson , Gunther Uhlmann

We consider the inverse problem of determining the Lam\'{e} parameters and the density of a three-dimensional elastic body from the local time-harmonic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. We prove uniqueness and Lipschitz stability of this inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-12 Elena Beretta , Maarten V. de Hoop , Elisa Francini , Sergio Vessella , Jian Zhai

This paper concerns the reconstruction of multiple elastic parameters (Lam\'e parameters and density) of an inhomogeneous medium embedded in an infinite homogeneous isotropic background in $\mathbb{R}^2$. The direct scattering problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Gang Bao , Tao Yin , Fang Zeng

In this paper, we study an inverse problem for an acoustic-gravitational system whose principal symbol is identical to that of an acoustic wave operator. The displacement vector of a gas or liquid between the unperturbed and perturbed flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Sombuddha Bhattacharyya , Maarten de Hoop , Vitaly Katsnelson

In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of recovering an isotropic elastic tensor from the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map. To this end, we prove a Lipschitz stability estimate for Lam\'e parameters with certain regularity assumptions. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Sarah Eberle , Bastian Harrach , Houcine Meftahi , Taher Rezgui

We consider a problem of quantitative static elastography, the estimation of the Lam\'e parameters from internal displacement field data. This problem is formulated as a nonlinear operator equation. To solve this equation, we investigate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Simon Hubmer , Ekaterina Sherina , Andreas Neubauer , Otmar Scherzer

In this paper, we consider time-harmonic elastic wave scattering governed by the Lam\'e system. It is known that the elastic wave field can be decomposed into the shear and compressional parts, namely, the pressure and shear waves that are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Hongyu Liu , Jingni Xiao

We consider the inverse boundary value problem of determining the Lam\'e moduli of an isotropic, static elasticity equations of system at the boundary from the localized Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. Assuming appropriate local regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Yi-Hsuan Lin , Gen Nakamura

This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problem involving the time-domain elastic wave equations in a bounded $d$-dimensional domain. First, an explicit reconstruction formula for the density is established by means of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Bochao Chen , Yixian Gao , Shuguan Ji , Yang Liu

Assume a time-harmonic elastic wave is incident onto a penetrable anisotropic body embedded into a homogeneous isotropic background medium. We propose an equivalent variational formulation in a truncated bounded domain and show the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Gang Bao , Guanghui Hu , Jiguang Sun , Tao Yin

We study the inverse boundary value problem for the linear elastic wave equation in three-dimensional isotropic medium. We show that both the Lam\'e parameters and the density can be uniquely recovered from the boundary measurements under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Jian Zhai

In this study, we address the inverse problem of recovering the Lam\'e parameters ($\lambda, \mu$) and the density $\rho$ of a medium from the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map for any dimension $d\geq 2$. This inverse problem finds its motivation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Houcine Meftahi , Chayma Nssibi

We discuss the determination of the Lam\'e parameters of an elastic material by the means of boundary measurements. We will combine previous results of Eskin-Ralston and Isakov to prove inverse results in the case of bounded domains with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Moritz Doll , André Froehly , René Schulz

Consider a three dimensional piecewise homogeneous anisotropic elastic medium $\Omega$ which is a bounded domain consisting of a finite number of bounded subdomains $D_\alpha$, with each $D_\alpha$ a homogeneous elastic medium. One typical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-13 Cătălin I. Cârstea , Naofumi Honda , Gen Nakamura

We study boundary determination for an inverse problem associated to the time-harmonic Maxwell equations and another associated to the isotropic elasticity system. We identify the electromagnetic parameters and the Lam\'e moduli for these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Pedro Caro , Ru-Yu Lai , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Ting Zhou

We are concerned with inverse boundary problems for first order perturbations of the Laplacian, which arise as model operators in the acoustic tomography of a moving fluid. We show that the knowledge of the Dirichlet--to--Neumann map on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Boya Liu

Let $L_0$ be a closed densely defined symmetric semi-bounded operator with nonzero defect indexes in a separable Hilbert space ${\cal H}$. With $L_0$ we associate a metric space $\Omega_{L_0}$ that is named a {\it wave spectrum} and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-04-13 M. I. Belishev

We establish a decoupling result for the $P$ and $S$ waves of linear, isotropic elasticity, in the setting of twice-differentiable Lam\'e parameters. Precisely, we show that the $P\leftrightarrow S$ components of the wave propagation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-07 Valeriy Brytik , Maarten de Hoop , Hart Smith , Gunther Uhlmann
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