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This paper concerns an inverse elastic scattering problem which is to determine the location and the shape of a rigid obstacle from the phased or phaseless far-field data for a single incident plane wave. By introducing the Helmholtz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

In this work, we construct the Born and inverse Born approximation and series to recover two function-valued coefficients in the Helmholtz equation for inverse scattering problems from the scattering data at two different frequencies. An…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Fioralba Cakoni , Shixu Meng , Zehui Zhou

We propose a new approach to constructing globally strictly convex objective functional in a 1-D inverse medium scattering problem using multi-frequency backscattering data. The global convexity of the proposed objective functional is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Thanh T. Nguyen , Michael V. Klibanov

A Coefficient Inverse Problem for the radiative transport equation is considered. The globally convergent numerical method, the so-called convexification, is developed. For the first time, the viscosity solution is considered for a boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Zhipeng Yang

In the present paper we describe a method for solving inverse problems for the Helmholtz equation in radially-symmetric domains given multi-frequency data. Our approach is based on the construction of suitable trace formulas which relate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Abinand Gopal , Jeremy Hoskins , Vladimir Rokhlin

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for determining unknown scatterers, which is governed by the Helmholtz equation in a bounded domain. To address this, we develop a novel convex data-fitting formulation that is capable of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Sarah Eberle-Blick , Bastian Harrach , Xianchao Wang

In this paper we present a hybrid approach to numerically solve two-dimensional electromagnetic inverse scattering problems, whereby the unknown scatterer is hosted by a possibly inhomogeneous background. The approach is `hybrid' in that it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-22 G. Giorgi , M. Brignone , R. Aramini , M. Piana

We consider the 2D quasi-periodic scattering problem in optics, which has been modelled by a boundary value problem governed by Helmholtz equation with transparent boundary conditions. A spectral collocation method and a tensor product…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Kui Du

The paper aims a logarithmic stability estimate for the inverse source problem of the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation with attenuation factor in a two layer medium. We establish a stability by using multiple frequencies at the two end…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Mozhgan Nora Entekhabi , Ajith Gunaratne

This paper is concerned with the numerical solution to a 3D coefficient inverse problem for buried objects with multi-frequency experimental data. The measured data, which are associated with a single direction of an incident plane wave,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen , Michael A. Fiddy

A convexification-based numerical method for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a parabolic PDE is presented. The key element of this method is the presence of the so-called Carleman Weight Function in the numerical scheme. Convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-10 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Wenlong Zhang

The computational cost of solving an inverse problem governed by PDEs, using multiple experiments, increases linearly with the number of experiments. A recently proposed method to decrease this cost uses only a small number of random linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Benjamin Crestel , Alen Alexanderian , Georg Stadler , Omar Ghattas

A new version of the convexification method is developed analytically and tested numerically for a 1-D coefficient inverse problem in the frequency domain. Unlike the previous version, this one does not use the so-called "tail function",…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Michael V. Klibanov , Aleksandr E. Kolesov , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

A new numerical method is proposed for a 1-D inverse medium scattering problem with multi-frequency data. This method is based on the construction of a weighted cost functional. The weight is a Carleman Weight Function (CWF). In other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Michael V. Klibanov , Aleksandr E. Kolesov , Lam Nguyen , Anders Sullivan

We consider the problem of reconstructing the shape of an impenetrable sound-soft obstacle from scattering measurements. The input data is assumed to be the far-field pattern generated when a plane wave impinges on an unknown obstacle from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Carlos Borges , Leslie Greengard

This paper investigates the inverse scattering problem of time-harmonic plane waves incident on a perfectly reflecting random periodic structure. To simulate random perturbations arising from manufacturing defects and surface wear in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Zhiqi Sun , Yiwen Lin

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

This paper is concerned with an inverse wavenumber/frequency-dependent source problem for the Helmholtz equation. In two and three dimensions, the unknown source term is supposed to be compactly supported in spatial variables but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Mengjie Zhao , Suliang Si , Guanghui Hu

In this paper, a reconstruction method for the spatially distributed dielectric constant of a medium from the back scattering wave field in the frequency domain is considered. Our approach is to propose a globally convergent algorithm,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

An approximately globally convergent numerical method for a 3d Coefficient Inverse Problem for a hyperbolic equation with backscattering data is presented. A new approximate mathematical model is presented. An approximation is used only on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-18 Larisa Beilina , Michael V. Klibanov