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We focus on a geometrical inverse problem that involves recovering discontinuities in electrical conductivity based on boundary measurements. This problem serves as a model to introduce a shape recovery technique that merges the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Bastian Harrach , Houcine Meftahi

In this paper, we deal with the inverse problem of the shape reconstruction of cavities and inclusions embedded in a linear elastic isotropic medium from boundary displacement's measurements. For, we consider a constrained minimization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Andrea Aspri , Elena Beretta , Cecilia Cavaterra , Elisabetta Rocca , Marco Verani

We study an elastic Calderon-type inverse problem: recover the mass density $\rho(x)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ from the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map associated with the isotropic Lam\'e system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Huaian Diao , Mourad Sini , Ruixiang Tang

The aim of this paper is to present and analyze a new direct method for solving the linear elasticity inverse problem. Given measurements of some displacement fields inside a medium, we show that a stable reconstruction of elastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Habib Ammari , Elie Bretin , Pierre Millien , Laurent Seppecher

In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of recovering a diffusion and absorption coefficients in steady-state optical tomography problem from the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map. We first prove a Global uniqueness and Lipschitz stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Houcine Meftahi

We consider the inverse problem of identifying an unknown inclusion contained in an elastic body by the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. The body is made by linearly elastic, homogeneous and isotropic material. The Lam\'e moduli of the inclusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Giovanni Alessandrini , Michele Di Cristo , Antonino Morassi , Edi Rosset

Intrinsic nonlinear elasticity deals with the deformations of elastic bodies as isometric immersions of Riemannian manifolds into the Euclidean spaces (see Ciarlet [9,10]). In this paper, we study the rigidity and continuity properties of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Siran Li , Marshall Slemrod

This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problem involving the time-domain elastic wave equations in a bounded $d$-dimensional domain. First, an explicit reconstruction formula for the density is established by means of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Bochao Chen , Yixian Gao , Shuguan Ji , Yang Liu

We extend the monotonicity method for direct exact reconstruction of inclusions in the partial data Calder\'on problem, to the case of general anisotropic conductivities in any spatial dimension $d\geq 2$. From a local Neumann-to-Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Henrik Garde , David Johansson , Thanasis Zacharopoulos

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Roland Griesmaier , Bastian Harrach , Jianli Xiang

We derive a linearized version of the monotonicity method for shape reconstruction using time harmonic elastic waves. The linearized method provides an efficient version of the method, drastically reducing computation time. Here we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Sarah Eberle-Blick , Valter Pohjola

Electrical impedance tomography aims at reconstructing the interior electrical conductivity from surface measurements of currents and voltages. As the current-voltage pairs depend nonlinearly on the conductivity, impedance tomography leads…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Nuutti Hyvönen , Lauri Mustonen

In this short note, we investigate simultaneous recovery inverse problems for semilinear elliptic equations with partial data. The main technique is based on higher order linearization and monotonicity approaches. With these methods at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Bastian Harrach , Yi-Hsuan Lin

We introduce and study a new inverse problem for antiplane shear in elastic bodies with strain-gradient interfaces. The setting is a homogeneous isotropic elastic body containing an inclusion separated by a thin interface endowed with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Govanni Granados , Jeremy L. Marzuola , Casey Rodriguez

This work considers the inclusion detection problem of electrical impedance tomography with stochastic conductivities. It is shown that a conductivity anomaly with a random conductivity can be identified by applying the Factorization Method…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Andrea Barth , Bastian Harrach , Nuutti Hyvönen , Lauri Mustonen

This manuscript bridges nonparametric smoothness-based and shape-restricted estimation, which may appear as two disjoint paradigms in the field. The proposed approach is motivated by a conceptually simple observation: every Lipschitz…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-22 Kenta Takatsu , Tianyu Zhang , Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla

The paper deals with the inverse problem of determining a polyhedral inclusion compactly contained in an elastic body from boundary measurements of traction and displacement taken on an open portion of the boundary. Both the inclusion and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Andrea Aspri , Elena Beretta , Elisa Francini , Antonino Morassi , Edi Rosset , Eva Sincich , Sergio Vessella

We present a new formulation based on the classical Dirichlet-Neumann formulation for interface coupling problems in linearized elasticity. By using Taylor series expansions, we derive a new set of interface conditions that allow our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Pavel Bochev , James Cheung , Max Gunzburger , Mauro Perego

The Neumann problem of linear elasticity is singular with a kernel formed by the rigid motions of the body. There are several tricks that are commonly used to obtain a non-singular linear system. However, they often cause reduced accuracy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal , Mikael Mortensen

We address the inverse problem of recovering the stiffness tensor and density of mass from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. We study the invariance of the Euclidean and Riemannian elastic wave equation under coordinate transformations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Joonas Ilmavirta , Hjørdis Schlüter