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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 is concerned with the inverse problem to recover the scalar, complex-valued refractive index of a medium from measurements of scattered time-harmonic electromagnetic waves at a fixed frequency. The main results are two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Frederic Weidling , Thorsten Hohage

This work deals with an inverse source problem for the biharmonic wave equation. A two-stage numerical method is proposed to identify the unknown source from the multi-frequency phaseless data. In the first stage, we introduce some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Yue Zhao

The paper considers an inverse source problem for a one-dimensional time-fractional heat equation with the generalized impedance boundary condition. The inverse problem is the time dependent source parameter identification together with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-06 M. Cicek , M. I. Ismailov

We consider the time-harmonic Maxwell system in a domain with a generalized impedance edge-corner, namely the presence of two generalized impedance planes that intersect at an edge. The impedance parameter can be $0, \infty$ or a finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Long Zhang , Jun Zou

Consider the scattering of the two- or three-dimensional Helmholtz equation where the source of the electric current density is assumed to be compactly supported in a ball. This paper concerns the stability analysis of the inverse source…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Peijun Li , Ganghua Yuan

We consider the inverse random potential scattering problem for the two- and three-dimensional biharmonic wave equation in lossy media. The potential is assumed to be a microlocally isotropic Gaussian rough field. The main contributions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Peijun Li , Xu Wang

The recovery of anomalies from backscattering far field data is a long-standing open problem in inverse scattering theory. We make a first step in this direction by establishing the unique identifiability of convex impenetrable obstacles…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Jialei Li , Xiaodong Liu , Qingxiang Shi

An analysis is developed linking the form of the sound field from a circular source to the radial structure of the source, without recourse to far-field or other approximations. It is found that the information radiated into the field is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Michael Carley

We establish results for the injectivity and injectivity modulo gauge of certain inverse source problems in transport on a simply connected domain with variable index of refraction inducing a 'simple geometry'. The model given by radiative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Guillaume Bal , François Monard

Consider a time-harmonic elastic point source incident on a bounded obstacle which is embedded in an open space filled with a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium. This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of recovering the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Chun Liu , Guanghui Hu , Tao Yin , Bo Zhang

It is proved that an inhomogeneous medium whose boundary contains a weakly singular point of arbitrary order scatters every incoming wave. Similarly, a compactly supported source term with weakly singular points on the boundary always…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Long Li , Guanghui Hu , Jiansheng Yang

A new numerical method to solve an inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation involving the absorption and scattering terms, with incomplete data, is proposed. No restrictive assumption on those absorption and scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Alexey V. Smirnov , Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen

We discuss inverse problems of determining the time-dependent source coefficient for a general class of subelliptic heat equations. We show that a single data at an observation point guarantees the existence of a (smooth) solution pair for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Mansur I. Ismailov , Tohru Ozawa , Durvudkhan Suragan

In this article, we consider the diffusion equation with multi-term time-fractional derivatives. We first derive that the solution is positive when the source term is nonpositive by a subordination principle for the solution. As an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Xiaona Yang , Zhiyuan Li

This paper concerns the reconstruction of the scattering coefficient in a two-dimensional transport equation from angularly averaged measurements when the probing source is isotropic and time-harmonic. This is a practical setting in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Guillaume Bal , Francois Monard

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of determining the time and space dependent source term of diffusion equations with constant-order time-fractional derivative in $(0,2)$. We examine two different cases. In the first one, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Yavar Kian , Eric Soccorsi , Qi Xue , Masahiro Yamamoto

We address the nonlinear inverse source problem of identifying a time-dependent source occurring in one node of a network governed by a wave equation. We prove that time records of the associated state taken at a strategic set of two nodes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-22 J. G. Caputo , A. Hamdi , A. Knippel

A numerical method is developed for recovering both the source locations and the obstacle from the scattered Cauchy data of the time-harmonic acoustic field. First of all, the incident and scattered components are decomposed from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Deyue Zhang , Yan Chang , Yukun Guo

In this paper, we consider the inverse scattering problem associated with an anisotropic medium with a conductive boundary. We will assume that the corresponding far-field pattern is known/measured and we consider two inverse problems.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Victor Hughes , Isaac Harris , Heejin Lee