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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

The reconstruction of the unknown acoustic source is studied using the noisy multiple frequency data on a remote closed surface. Assume that the unknown source is coded in a spatial dependent piecewise constant function, whose support set…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Zhiliang Deng , Xiaomei Yang , Jiangfeng Huang

Time-lapse images carry out important information about dynamic changes in Earth's interior which can be inferred using different Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) schemes. The estimation process is performed by manipulating more than one…

More than ten years ago Ikehata discovered two mathematical methods for the purpose of extracting information about the location and shape of unknown discontinuity embedded in a known background medium from observation data. The methods are…

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

The methodology developed in this article is motivated by a wide range of prediction and uncertainty quantification problems that arise in Statistics, Machine Learning and Applied Mathematics, such as non-parametric regression, multi-class…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-03-26 Victor Chen , Matthew M. Dunlop , Omiros Papaspiliopoulos , Andrew M. Stuart

Sampling of sharp posteriors in high dimensions is a challenging problem, especially when gradients of the likelihood are unavailable. In low to moderate dimensions, affine-invariant methods, a class of ensemble-based gradient-free methods,…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-23 Matthew M. Dunlop , Georg Stadler

An innovative inverse scattering (IS) method is proposed for the quantitative imaging of pixel-sparse scatterers buried within a lossy half-space. On the one hand, such an approach leverages on the wide-band nature of ground penetrating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Marco Salucci , Nicola Anselmi

We consider the statistical inverse problem of estimating a background flow field (e.g., of air or water) from the partial and noisy observation of a passive scalar (e.g., the concentration of a solute), a common experimental approach to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Jeff Borggaard , Nathan E. Glatt-Holtz , Justin A. Krometis

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 paper concerns the inverse shape problem of recovering an unknown clamped cavity embedded in a thin infinite plate. The model problem is assumed to be governed by the two-dimensional biharmonic wave equation in the frequency domain.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Isaac Harris , Heejin Lee , Peijun Li

We propose and analyse a numerical method for time-harmonic acoustic scattering in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n=2,3$, by a class of inhomogeneities (penetrable scatterers) with fractal boundary. Our method is based on a Galerkin discretisation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Joshua Bannister , David P. Hewett , Andrew Gibbs

Sample-based Bayesian inference provides a route to uncertainty quantification in the geosciences, and inverse problems in general, though is very computationally demanding in the naive form that requires simulating an accurate computer…

Computation · Statistics 2019-04-12 Tiangang Cui , Colin Fox , Michael J O'Sullivan

Computational time reversal imaging can be used to locate the position of multiple scatterers in a known background medium. The current methods for computational time reversal imaging are based on the null subspace projection operator,…

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In this paper, we consider the direct and inverse problem for isotropic scatterers with two conductive boundary conditions. First, we show the uniqueness for recovering the coefficients from the known far-field data at a fixed incident…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Rafael Ceja Ayala , Isaac Harris , Andreas Kleefeld

This paper proposes a systematic mathematical analysis of both the direct and inverse acoustic scattering problem given the source in Radon measure space. For the direct problem, we investigate the well-posedness including the existence,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Xueshuang Xiang , Hongpeng Sun

We study Bayesian methods for large-scale linear inverse problems, focusing on the challenging task of hyperparameter estimation. Typical hierarchical Bayesian formulations that follow a Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach are possible for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Khalil A Hall-Hooper , Arvind K Saibaba , Julianne Chung , Scot M Miller

In this paper we propose and analyse a hybrid numerical-asymptotic boundary element method for the solution of problems of high frequency acoustic scattering by a class of sound-soft nonconvex polygons. The approximation space is enriched…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-14 David P. Hewett , Simon N. Chandler-Wilde , Stephen Langdon , Ashley Twigger

This paper is concerned with the reconstruction of the shape of an acoustic obstacle. Based on the use of the tapered waves with very narrow widths illuminating the obstacle, the boundary of the obstacle is reconstructed by a direct imaging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Deyue Zhang , Mengjiao Bai , Yan Chang , Yukun Guo

In this article we study the inverse problem of recovering a space-dependent coefficient of the Moore-Gibson-Thompson (MGT) equation, from knowledge of the trace of the solution on some open subset of the boundary. We obtain the Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Rogelio Arancibia , Rodrigo Lecaros , Alberto Mercado , Sebastián Zamorano

This paper analyzes inverse scattering for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in the case where the wave speed is piecewise constant. Scattering data recorded for an arbitrarily small interval of frequencies is shown to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sophia Bugarija , Peter C. Gibson , Guanghui Hu , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao