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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

The paper introduces a method to solve inverse problems for hyperbolic systems where the leading order terms are non-linear. We apply the method to the coupled Einstein-scalar field equations and study the question whether the structure of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen , Gunther Uhlmann

We consider inverse problems for a Westervelt equation with a strong damping and a time-dependent potential $q$. We first prove that all boundary measurements, including the initial data, final data, and the lateral boundary measurements,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Li Li , Yang 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

In this paper, we consider the inverse boundary problems of recovering the time-dependent nonlinearity and damping term for a semilinear wave equation on a Riemannian manifold. The Carleman estimate and the construction of Gaussian beams…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Song-Ren Fu

In this article, we investigate an inverse problem for a semi-linear wave equation posed on bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, with $n \geq 2$. Our primary objective is to reconstruct the damping coefficient, the linear and nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Rahul Bhardwaj , Mandeep Kumar , Manmohan Vashisth

In this paper, we study the direct and inverse scattering of the Schr\"odinger equation in a three-dimensional planar waveguide. For the direct problem, we derive a resonance-free region and resolvent estimates for the resolvent of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Yue Zhao

This article addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering both the wave speed coefficient and an unknown initial condition (acting as the source) for the multidimensional wave equation from a single passive boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yavar Kian , Hongyu Liu

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

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-16 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

We consider nonlinear elastic wave equations generalizing Gol'dberg's five constants model. We analyze the nonlinear interaction of two distorted plane waves and characterize the possible nonlinear responses. Using the boundary measurements…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Maarten de Hoop , Gunther Uhlmann , Yiran Wang

This paper is concerned with the inverse spectral problem for the third-order differential equation with distribution coefficient. The inverse problem consists in the recovery of the differential expression coefficients from the spectral…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Natalia P. Bondarenko

In this paper, we study the inverse source problem for the biharmonic wave equation. Mathematically, we characterize the radiating sources and non-radiating sources at a fixed wavenumber. We show that a general source can be decomposed into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Tao Yin , Yue Zhao

In this paper, we develop and numerically implement a novel approach for solving the inverse source problem of the acoustic wave equation in three dimensions. By injecting a small high-contrast droplet into the medium, we exploit the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Shutong Hou , Mourad Sini , Haibing Wang

We study the inverse problem of recovery a compactly supported non-linearity in the semilinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u+ \alpha(x) |u|^2u=0$, in two and three dimensions. We probe the medium with complex-valued harmonic waves of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Antônio Sá Barreto , Plamen Stefanov

In this paper, we study the inverse medium scattering problem to reconstruct unknown inhomogeneous medium from far field patterns of scattered waves. In the first part of our work, the linear inverse scattering problem was discussed, while…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Takashi Furuya , Roland Potthast

This paper concerns the random source problems for the time-harmonic acoustic and elastic wave equations in two and three dimensions. The goal is to determine the compactly supported external force from the radiated wave field measured in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Jianliang Li , Tapio Helin , Peijun Li

In this article we are concerned with an inverse initial boundary value problem for a non-linear wave equation in space dimension $n\geq 2$. In particular we consider the so called interior determination problem. This non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Gen Nakamura , Manmohan Vashisth , Michiyuki Watanabe

We initiate the study of inverse source problems for quasilinear elliptic equations of the form \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \nabla \cdot (\gamma(x,u,\nabla u) \nabla u) = F & \text{in } \Omega, \\ u = f & \text{on } \partial\Omega,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Tony Liimatainen , Shubham Jaiswal

We consider the following inverse problem: Suppose a $(1+1)$-dimensional wave equation on $\mathbb{R}_+$ with zero initial conditions is excited with a Neumann boundary data modelled as a white noise process. Given also the Dirichlet data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Emilia L. K. Blåsten , Tapio Helin , Antti Kujanpää , Lauri Oksanen , Jesse Railo