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We consider the problem of obtaining information about an inaccessible half-space from acoustic measurements made in the accessible half-space. If the measurements are of limited precision, some scatterers will be undetectable because their…

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Inverse obstacle scattering is the recovery of an obstacle boundary from the scattering data produced by incident waves. This shape recovery can be done by iteratively solving a PDE-constrained optimization problem for the obstacle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Travis Askham , Carlos Borges , Jeremy Hoskins , Manas Rachh

The factorization method by Kirsch (1998) provides a necessary and sufficient condition for characterizing the shape and position of an unknown scatterer by using far-field patterns of infinitely many time-harmonic plane waves at a fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Guanqiu Ma , Guanghui Hu

This paper introduces a multi-frequency factorization method for imaging a time-dependent source, specifically to recover its spatial support and the associated excitation instants. Using far-field data from two opposite directions, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Guanqiu Ma , Hongxia Guo , Guanghui Hu

Inverse scattering is the process of estimating the spatial distribution of the scattering potential of an object by measuring the scattered wavefields around it. In this paper, we consider reflection tomography of high contrast objects…

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This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of time-harmonic acoustic scattering by an unbounded, locally rough interface which is assumed to be a local perturbation of a plane. The purpose of this paper is to recover the local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Jianliang Li , Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang

The acoustic inverse obstacle scattering problem consists of determining the shape of a domain from measurements of the scattered far field due to some set of incident fields (probes). For a penetrable object with known sound speed, this…

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This paper concerns the inverse scattering problem to reconstruct a locally perturbed periodic surface. Different from scattering problems with quasi-periodic incident fields and periodic surfaces, the scattered fields are no longer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Xiaoli Liu , Ruming Zhang

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…

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This paper is concerned with the uniqueness in inverse acoustic scattering problems with the modulus of the far-field patterns co-produced by the obstacle (resp. medium) and the point sources. Based on the superposition of point sources as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Fenglin Sun , Deyue Zhang , Yukun Guo

We describe a fast, stable algorithm for the solution of the inverse acoustic scattering problem in two dimensions. Given full aperture far field measurements of the scattered field for multiple angles of incidence, we use Chen's method of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Carlos Borges , Adrianna Gillman , Leslie Greengard

Due to manufacturing defects or wear and tear, industrial components may have uncertainties. In order to evaluate the performance of machined components, it is crucial to quantify the uncertainty of the scattering surface. This brings up an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Yi Wang , Lei Lin , Junliang Lv

We consider the inverse acoustic obstacle problem for sound-soft star-shaped obstacles in two dimensions wherein the boundary of the obstacle is determined from measurements of the scattered field at a collection of receivers outside the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Mo Zhou , Jiequn Han , Manas Rachh , Carlos Borges

This paper is concerned with uniqueness in inverse electromagnetic scattering with phaseless far-field pattern at a fixed frequency. In our previous work [{\em SIAM J. Appl. Math.} {\bf 78} (2018), 3024-3039], by adding a known reference…

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This paper is concerned with the inverse medium problem of determining the location and shape of penetrable scattering objects from measurements of the scattered field. We study a sampling indicator function for recovering the scattering…

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We consider the scattering of time-harmonic plane waves by a compactly supported inhomogeneous scattering obstacle governed by the Helmholtz equation. Given far field observations of the scattered fields corresponding to plane wave incident…

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We consider quantum and acoustic wave propagation at fixed frequency for compactly supported scatterers in dimension $d\ge 2$. In these framework we give explicit formulas for phase recovering from appropriate phaseless scattering data. As…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Roman Novikov

This paper is dedicated to design a direct sampling method of inverse electromagnetic scattering problems, which uses multi-frequency sparse backscattering far field data for reconstructing the boundary of perfectly conducting obstacles. We…

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