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This report extends our recent progress in tackling a challenging 3D inverse scattering problem governed by the Helmholtz equation. Our target application is to reconstruct dielectric constants, electric conductivities and shapes of front…

In 1965 A.N. Tikhonov, the founder of the theory of Ill-Posed and Inverse Problems, has posed an coefficient inverse problem of the recovery of the unknown electric conductivity coefficient from measurements of the back reflected electrical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Michael V. Klibanov

A 3-D inverse medium problem in the frequency domain is considered. Another name for this problem is Coefficient Inverse Problem. The goal is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from scattering data. Potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Michael V. Klibanov , Hui Liu , Loc H. Nguyen

It is proposed to monitor spatial and temporal spreads of epidemics via solution of a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a system of three coupled nonlinear parabolic equations. To solve this problem numerically, a version of the so-called…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Michael V. Klibanov , Trung Truong

The reconstruction of physical properties of a medium from boundary measurements, known as inverse scattering problems, presents significant challenges. The present study aims to validate a newly developed convexification method for a 3D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Thuy Le , Vo Anh Khoa , Michael Victor Klibanov , Loc Hoang Nguyen , Grant Bidney , Vasily Astratov

We propose a new numerical method to reconstruct the isotropic electrical conductivity from measured restricted Dirichlet-to-Neumann map data in electrical impedance tomography (EIT) model. "Restricted Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) map data"…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Wenlong Zhang

This work is concerned with linear inverse problems where a distributed parameter is known a priori to only take on values from a given discrete set. This property can be promoted in Tikhonov regularization with the aid of a suitable convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Christian Clason , Thi Bich Tram Do

We consider an inverse problem of identifying the diffusion coefficient in matrix form in a parabolic PDE. In 2006, Cao and Pereverzev, used a \textit{natural linearisation} method for identifying a scalar valued diffusion coefficient in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Subhankar Mondal , M. Thamban Nair

For the heat equation in a bounded domain we give a stability result for a smooth diffusion coefficient. The key ingredients are a global Carleman-type estimate, a Poincar\'e-type estimate and an energy estimate with a single observation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-06-12 Patricia Gaitan

We consider a $2\times 2$ system of parabolic equations with first and zeroth coupling and establish a Carleman estimate by extra data of only one component without data of initial values. Then we apply the Carleman estimate to inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-09-10 Assia Benabdallah , Michel Cristofol , Patricia Gaitan , Masahiro Yamamoto

A new numerical method to solve an inverse source problem for the Helmholtz equation in inhomogenous media is proposed. This method reduces the original inverse problem to a boundary value problem for a coupled system of elliptic PDEs, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Loc H. Nguyen , Qitong Li , Michael V. Klibanov

This paper gives a self-contained introduction to the Hilbert projective metric $\mathcal{H}$ and its fundamental properties, with a particular focus on the space of probability measures. We start by defining the Hilbert pseudo-metric on…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Samuel N. Cohen , Eliana Fausti

The main aim of this paper is to solve an inverse source problem for a general nonlinear hyperbolic equation. Combining the quasi-reversibility method and a suitable Carleman weight function, we define a map of which fixed point is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Loc H. Nguyen , Michael V. Klibanov

We consider an inverse problem of reconstructing two spatially varying coefficients in an acoustic equation of hyperbolic type using interior data of solutions with suitable choices of initial condition. Using a Carleman estimate, we prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 L. Beilina , M. Cristofol , S. Li , M. Yamamoto

This paper explores the controllability of a class of N-dimensional hyperbolic equations featuring a single interior degenerate point. Firstly, we establish the well-posedness of the equation through the application of the Hardy inequality.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Donghui Yang , Weijia Wu

An inverse problem of the determination of an initial condition in a hyperbolic equation from the lateral Cauchy data is considered. This problem has applications to the thermoacoustic tomography, as well as to linearized coefficient…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-12-04 Michael V Klibanov , Sergey I Kabanikhin , Dmitriy V Nechaev , Andrey V Kuzhuget

We consider an inverse problem of reconstructing the conductivity function in a hyperbolic equation using single space-time domain noisy observations of the solution on the backscattering boundary of the computational domain. We formulate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Larisa Beilina , Kati Niinimäki

The recently developed globally convergent numerical method for an inverse medium problem for the Helmholtz equation is tested on experimental data. The data were originally collected in the time domain, whereas the method works in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Aleksandr E. Kolesov , Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Nguyen T. Thanh

We investigate algorithms for reconstructing a convex body $K$ in $\mathbb {R}^n$ from noisy measurements of its support function or its brightness function in $k$ directions $u_1,...,u_k$. The key idea of these algorithms is to construct a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Richard J. Gardner , Markus Kiderlen , Peyman Milanfar

For the first time, a globally convergent numerical method is developed and Lipschitz stability estimate is obtained for the challenging problem of travel time tomography in 3D for formally determined incomplete data. The semidiscrete case…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Michael V. Klibanov