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When a plane electromagnetic wave impinges upon a diffraction grating or other periodic structures, reflected and transmitted waves propagate away from the structure in different radiation channels. A diffraction anomaly occurs when the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Zitao Mai , Ya Yan Lu

Time harmonic inverse scattering using accurate forward models is often computationally expensive. On the other hand, the use of computationally efficient solvers, such as the Born approximation, may fail if the targets do not satisfy the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-05 Jari P. Kaipio , Tomi Huttunen , Teemu Luostari , Timo Lähivaara , Peter B. Monk

This paper concerns the Bayesian approach to inverse acoustic scattering problems of inferring the position and shape of a sound-soft obstacle from phaseless far-field data generated by point source waves. To improve the convergence rate,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Zhipeng Yang , Xinping Gui , Ju Ming , Guanghui Hu

We present a Monte Carlo rendering framework for the physically-accurate simulation of speckle patterns arising from volumetric scattering of coherent waves. These noise-like patterns are characterized by strong statistical properties, such…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-23 Chen Bar , Marina Alterman , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Anat Levin

We study time-harmonic scattering by a periodic array of penetrable, high-contrast obstacles with small period, confined to a bounded Lipschitz domain. The strong contrast between the obstacles and the background induces subwavelength…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Yuxin Du , Xin Fu , Wenjia Jing

The application of random matrix theory to scattering requires introduction of system-specific information. This paper shows that the average impedance matrix, which characterizes such system-specific properties, can be semiclassically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-03 Jen-Hao Yeh , James A. Hart , Elliott Bradshaw , Thomas M. Antonsen , Edward Ott , Steven M. Anlage

The wave equation is time-reversal invariant. The enclosure method using a Neumann data generated by this invariance is introduced. The method yields the minimum ball that is centered at a given arbitrary point and encloses an unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Masaru Ikehata

We consider the inverse scattering problem for inhomogeneous media of compact support governed by the fractional s-Helmholtz equation, with $0<s<1$, in dimensions $d=1,2,3$. In particular, we study the determination of the support of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Dana Zilberberg

In this paper, we consider two time-harmonic inverse scattering problems of reconstructing penetrable inhomogeneous obstacles from near field measurements. First we appeal to the Born approximation for reconstructing small isotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Isaac Harris , Scott Rome

A rigorous mathematical model and an efficient computational method are proposed to solving the inverse elastic surface scattering problem which arises from the near-field imaging of periodic structures. We demonstrate how an enhanced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Huaian Diao , Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

We obtain a nonperturbative, analytical solution to integral equation of scattering theory by assuming the field within the scattering object is a spherical wave with a scattering amplitude equal to that of the far field. This approximation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Brian Slovick , Srini Krishnamurthy

We consider a fixed angle inverse scattering problem in the presence of a known Riemannian metric. First, assuming a no caustics condition, we study the direct problem by utilizing the progressing wave expansion. Under a symmetry assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Shiqi Ma , Mikko Salo

Established image recovery methods in fast ultrasound imaging, e.g. delay-and-sum, trade the image quality for the high frame rate. Cutting-edge inverse scattering methods based on compressed sensing (CS) disrupt this tradeoff via a priori…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Martin F. Schiffner

We present a new method for the control of waves based on inverse multiple scattering theory. Conceived as a generalization of the concept of metagrating, we call metaclusters to a finite set of scatterers whose position and properties are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Pawel Packo , Andrew Norris , Dani Torrent

In this paper, we establish two sharp quantitative results for the direct and inverse time-harmonic acoustic wave scattering. The first one is concerned with the recovery of the support of an inhomogeneous medium, independent of its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Emilia L. K. Blåsten , Hongyu Liu

In this paper we consider an inverse problem for the $n$-dimensional random Schr\"{o}dinger equation $(\Delta-q+k^2)u = 0$. We study the scattering of plane waves in the presence of a potential $q$ which is assumed to be a Gaussian random…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-13 Pedro Caro , Tapio Helin , Matti Lassas

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing inhomogeneities by performing a finite number of scattering measurements of acoustic type in the time-harmonic setting. We set up the reconstruction as a fully discrete variational problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Daniela Di Donato , Luca Rondi

This article is devoted to studying the inverse scattering for the fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation, and in particular we solve the Born approximation problem. Based on the ($p$,$q$)-type resolvent estimate for the fractional Laplacian,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Saumyajit Das , Tuhin Ghosh , Shiqi Ma

In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of determining the location and the shape of a sound-soft obstacle from the modulus of the far-field data for a single incident plane wave. By adding a reference ball artificially to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Heping Dong , Deyue Zhang , Yukun Guo

In this paper, a linear model based on multiple measurement vectors model is proposed to formulate the inverse scattering problem of highly conductive objects at one single frequency. Considering the induced currents which are mostly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Shilong Sun , Bert Jan Kooij , Alexander G. Yarovoy