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We are concerned with the inverse scattering problem of extracting the geometric structures of an unknown/inaccessible inhomogeneous medium by using the corresponding acoustic far-field measurement. Using the intrinsic geometric properties…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Jingzhi Li , Xiaofei Li , Hongyu Liu

In this paper, we consider the inverse scattering problem for recovering either an isotropic or anisotropic scatterer from the measured scattered field initiated by a point source. We propose two new imaging functionals for solving the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Isaac Harris , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Thi-Phong Nguyen

We study the inverse problem of locating point sources from far-field data under plane wave incidence. A direct computational method is developed based on multiple scattering theory, using a novel indicator function to avoid iterative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Nana Meng

We study the inverse problem of qualitatively recovering a supported cavity in a thin elastic plate governed by the flexural (biharmonic) wave equation, using far-field pattern measurements. We derive a reciprocity principle and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Carlos Borges , Rafael Ceja Ayala , Peter Nekrasov

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 in this work an inverse acoustic scattering problem when only phaseless data is available. The inverse problem is highly nonlinear and ill-posed due to the lack of the phase information. Solving inverse scattering problems with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Jianfeng Ning , Fuqun Han , Jun Zou

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

Consider the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous medium with complex refractive index. We show that an approximate factorization method can be applied to reconstruct the support of the complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Fenglong Qu , Haiwen Zhang

We study an inverse random obstacle scattering problems in $\mathbb{R}^2$ where the scatterer is formulated by a Gaussian process defined on the angular parameter domain. Equipped with a modified covariance function which is mathematically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Zhiqi Sun , Xiang Xu , Yiwen Lin

Consider the inverse scattering of time-harmonic acoustic scattering by an infinite rough surface which is supposed to be a local perturbation of a plane. A novel version of reverse time migration (RTM) is proposed to reconstruct the shape…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Jianliang Li , Hao Wu , Jiaqing Yang

Consider an exterior problem of the three-dimensional elastic wave equation, which models the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a rigid obstacle. The scattering problem is reformulated into a boundary value problem by introducing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

We propose an inverse scattering scheme of recovering a polyhedral obstacle in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n=2,3$, by only a few high-frequency acoustic backscattering measurements. The obstacle could be sound-soft or sound-hard. It is shown that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-05 Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu

This paper is concerned with the inverse time-harmonic elastic scattering problem of recovering unbounded rough surfaces in two dimensions. We assume that elastic plane waves with different directions are incident onto a rigid rough surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Guanghui Hu , Xiaoli Liu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves from an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is established, employing the integral equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-09 xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

This paper considers the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic plane waves by a bounded, inhomogeneous, penetrable obstacle with embedded objects inside. A new method is proposed to prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

This paper is concerned with reconstructing an acoustic obstacle and its excitation sources from the phaseless near-field measurements. By supplementing some artificial sources to the inverse scattering system, this co-inversion problem can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Deyue Zhang , Yue Wu , Yukun Guo

We propose a direct imaging method based on the reverse time migration to reconstruct extended obstacles in the half space with finite aperture elastic scattering data at a fixed frequency. We prove the resolution of the reconstruction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Zhiming Chen , Shiqi Zhou

In this paper, we consider the obstacle scattering problem for biharmonic equations with a Dirichlet boundary condition in both two and three dimensions. Some basic properties are first derived for the biharmonic scattering solutions, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Chengyu Wu , Jiaqing Yang

We study the fixed angle inverse scattering problem of determining a sound speed from scattering measurements corresponding to a single incident wave. The main result shows that a sound speed close to constant can be stably determined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Shiqi Ma , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Mikko Salo