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We study the nonlinear interactions of waves with a doubled-peaked power spectrum in shallow water. The starting point is the prototypical equation for nonlinear uni-directional waves in shallow water, i.e. the Korteweg de Vries equation.…
This paper addresses the inverse scattering problem in the domain Omega. The input data, measured outside Omega, involve the waves generated by the interaction of plane waves with various directions and unknown scatterers fully occluded…
We study an inverse problem for the wave equation, concerned with estimating the wave speed, aka velocity, from data gathered by an array of sources and receivers that emit probing signals and measure the resulting waves. The typical…
We consider the third-order linear differential equation $$\displaystyle\frac{d^3\psi}{dx^3}+Q(x)\,\displaystyle\frac{d\psi}{dx}+P(x)\,\psi=k^3\,\psi,\qquad x\in\mathbb R,$$ where the complex-valued potentials $Q$ and $P$ are assumed to…
We consider the inverse elastic scattering problems using the far field data due to one incident plane wave. A simple method is proposed to reconstruct the location and size of the obstacle using different components of the far field…
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…
The inverse scattering transform for a special case of the 3-wave resonant interaction equations with non-vanishing boundary conditions is studied. The Jost solutions and the fundamental analytic solutions (FAS) for the associated spectral…
We develop a novel wave imaging scheme for reconstructing the shape of an inhomogeneous scatterer and we consider the inverse acoustic obstacle scattering problem as a prototype model for our study. There exists a wealth of reconstruction…
We study an inverse problem for the wave equation where localized wave sources in random scattering media are to be determined from time resolved measurements of the waves at an array of receivers. The sources are far from the array, so the…
In this work, we consider the problem of reconstructing the shape of a three dimensional impenetrable sound-soft axis-symmetric obstacle from measurements of the scattered field at multiple frequencies. This problem has important…
We put forward a simple but effective explicit method of recovering initial data for the nonlinear shallow water system from the reading at the shoreline. We then apply our method to the tsunami waves inverse problem.
We address the nonlinear inverse source problem of identifying a time-dependent source occurring in one node of a network governed by a wave equation. We prove that time records of the associated state taken at a strategic set of two nodes…
Nonlinear ultrasound imaging leverages harmonic wave generation to enhance contrast and spatial resolution beyond the capabilities of conventional linear techniques. This behavior is commonly modeled by the Westervelt equation, which…
This paper is focused on the study of an inverse problem for a non-self-adjoint hyperbolic equation. More precisely, we attempt to stably recover a first order coefficient appearing in a wave equation from the knowledge of Neumann boundary…
This paper studies an inverse boundary value problem for a semilinear Helmholtz equation with Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\ge2$). The objective is to recover the unknown linear and…
This work considers the propagation of high-frequency waves in highly-scattering media where physical absorption of a nonlinear nature occurs. Using the classical tools of the Wigner transform and multiscale analysis, we derive semilinear…
In this paper, we study the inverse acoustic medium scattering problem to reconstruct the unknown inhomogeneous medium from far field patterns of scattered waves. We propose the reconstruction scheme based on the Kalman filter, which…
In this paper we study Love waves in a layered, elastic half-space. We first address the direct problem and we characterize the existence of Love waves through the dispersion relation. We then address the inverse problem and we show how to…
The multi-dimensional six-wave interaction system is derived in the context of nonlinear optics. Starting from Maxwell's equations, a reduced system of equations governing the dynamics of the electric and polarization fields are obtained.…
In this paper, we consider the problem of the scattering of in-plane waves at an interface between a homogeneous medium and a metamaterial. The relevant eigenmodes in the two regions are calculated by solving a recently described non…