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This paper is concerned with uniqueness in inverse acoustic scattering with phaseless far-field data at a fixed frequency. In our previous work ({\em SIAM J. Appl. Math. \bf78} (2018), 1737-1753), by utilizing spectral properties of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Xiaoxu Xu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

We consider an inverse problem for an inhomogeneous wave equation with discrete-in-time sources, modeling a seismic rupture. We assume that the sources occur along a path with subsonic velocity, and that data are collected over time on some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Maarten V. de Hoop , Lauri Oksanen , Justin Tittelfitz

This paper is concerning the inverse conductive scattering of acoustic waves by a bounded inhomogeneous object with possibly embedded obstacles inside. A new uniqueness theorem is proved that the conductive object is uniquely determined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Chengyu Wu , Jiaqing Yang

We consider initial boundary value problems for one-dimensional diffusion equation with time-fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ which are subject to non-zero Neumann boundary conditions. We prove the uniqueness for an inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-25 W. Rundell , M. Yamamoto

This paper considers the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic plane waves by a bounded, inhomogeneous, penetrable obstacle with embedded objects inside. A new method is proposed to prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

We consider an inverse problem for a Westervelt type nonlinear wave equation with fractional damping. This equation arises in nonlinear acoustic imaging, and we show the forward problem is locally well-posed. We prove that the smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Li Li , Yang Zhang

We consider two formally determined inverse problems for the wave equation in more than one space dimension. Motivated by the fixed angle inverse scattering problem, we show that a compactly supported potential is uniquely determined by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Rakesh , Mikko Salo

Coefficient inverse problems related to identifying the right-hand side of an equation with use of additional information is of interest among inverse problems for partial differential equations. When considering non-stationary problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Petr N. Vabishchevich

This paper is devoted to the study of the inverse problem of determining the right-hand side of the subdiffusion equation with the Caputo derivative with respect to time. In our case, the inverse problem consists in restoring the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-20 R. R. Ashurov , O. T. Mukhiddinova

This paper explores the forward and inverse problems for a fractional subdiffusion equation characterized by time-dependent diffusion and reaction coefficients. Initially, the forward problem is examined, and its unique solvability is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Ravshan Ashurov , Elbek Husanov

The present manuscript consists of inverse problems for a coupled system of wave equations with potential in $\mathbb{R}^3$. By establishing the fundamental solution to the aforementioned operator, we study the uniqueness aspects of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Rahul Bhardwaj , Manmohan Vashisth

We study an inverse problem of determining a time-dependent damping coefficient and potential appearing in the wave equation in a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension three or higher. More specifically, we are concerned with the case of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Boya Liu , Teemu Saksala , Lili Yan

We consider two inverse boundary value problems for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in an infinite slab. Assuming that tangential boundary data for the electric and magnetic fields at a fixed frequency is available either on subsets of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Monika Pichler

An inverse scattering problem for the 3D acoustic equation in time domain is considered. The unknown spatially distributed speed of sound is the subject of the solution of this problem. A single location of the point source is used. Using a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Wenlong Zhang

This paper is concerned with the multi-frequency factorization method for imaging the support of a wave-number-dependent source function. It is supposed that the source function is given by the inverse Fourier transform of some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Hongxia Guo , Guanghui Hu

This paper is concerned with an inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation over a bounded domain. The aim is to reconstruct two constant coefficients together with the location and shape of a Dirichlet polygonal obstacle from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Xiaoxu Xu , Guanghui Hu

We study the inverse Sturm-Liouville problem on a finite interval from partial knowledge of spectral data. Specifically, we show that the potential can be uniquely reconstructed from the knowledge of a fraction of Dirichlet eigenvalues…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Ali Feizmohammadi , Yavar Kian

It is proved that a connected polygonal obstacle coated by thin layers together with its surface impedance function can be determined uniquely from the far field pattern of a single incident plane wave. Our proof is based on the Schwarz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Guang-Hui Hu , Manmohan Vashisth

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for the hyperbolic partial differential equation $ (-i\partial_{t} + A_{0}(t,x))^2 u(t,x) - \sum_{j=1}^n (-i\partial_{x_j} + A_{j}(t,x))^2 u(t,x) + V(t,x)u(t,x) = 0 $ with time dependent vector…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-11 Ricardo Salazar

In this paper we prove a stable determination of the coefficients of the time-harmonic Maxwell equations from local boundary data. The argument --due to Isakov-- requires some restrictions on the domain.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Pedro Caro