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We consider one-dimensional inverse scattering in attenuating media where both the reflectivity and loss distributions are unknown. Mathematically, this corresponds to recovering the coefficients of a damped wave operator, or equivalently,…

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Oceanic internal waves often have curvilinear fronts and propagate over various currents. We present the first study of long weakly-nonlinear internal ring waves in a three-layer fluid in the presence of a background linear shear current.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-01 D. Tseluiko , N. S. Alharthi , R. Barros , K. R. Khusnutdinova

In this paper, a time domain enclosure method for an inverse obstacle scattering problem of electromagnetic wave is introduced. The wave as a solution of Maxwell's equations is generated by an applied volumetric current having an {\it…

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We investigate an inverse boundary value problem of determination of a nonlinear law for reaction-diffusion processes, which are modeled by general form semilinear parabolic equations. We do not assume that any solutions to these equations…

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We analyze the inverse spectral problem on the half line associated with elastic surface waves. Here, we focus on Love waves. Under certain generic conditions, we establish uniqueness and present a reconstruction scheme for the S- wavespeed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Maarten V. de Hoop , Alexei Iantchenko , Robert D. van der Hilst , Jian Zhai

Consider the two-dimensional inverse elastic wave scattering by an infinite rough surface with a Dirichlet boundary condition. A non-interative sampling technique is proposed for detecting the rough surface by taking elastic wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Tielei Zhu , Jiaqing Yang

This paper considers the inverse problem of identifying the source term of parabolic equations from sparse boundary measurements. We used data from moving sensors to locate the unknown source term. This work first proves the uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Qiling Gu , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

This paper is divided in two parts. In the first part, the inverse spectral problem for tight-binding hamiltonians is studied. This problem is shown to have an infinite number of solutions for properly chosen energies. The space of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 E. Rivera-Mociños , E. Sadurní

This paper investigates an inverse random source problem for stochastic evolution equations, including stochastic heat and wave equations, with the unknown source modeled as $g(x)f(t)\dot{W}(t)$. The research commences with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Xu Wang , Guanlin Yang , Zhidong Zhang

The motivation of this work is an inverse problem for the acoustic wave equation, where an array of sensors probes an unknown medium with pulses and measures the scattered waves. The goal of the inversion is to determine from these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky

This work deals with the convergence analysis of parabolic perturbations to quasilinear wave equations on smooth bounded domains. In particular, we consider wave equations with nonlinearities of quadratic type, which cover the two classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Vanja Nikolić

This paper focuses on stability estimates of the inverse random source problems for the polyharmonic, electromagnetic, and elastic wave equations. The source is represented as a microlocally isotropic Gaussian random field, which is defined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Peijun Li , Ying Liang , Xu Wang

In this work, we are concerned with the inverse scattering by interfaces for the linearized and isotropic elastic model at a fixed frequency. First, we derive complex geometrical optic solutions with linear or spherical phases having a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Manas Kar , Mourad Sini

Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic acoustic plane wave by a bounded elastic obstacle which is immersed in a homogeneous acoustic medium. This paper concerns an inverse acoustic-elastic interaction problem, which is to determine the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

The inverse problem in Seismology is tackled in this paper under three particular circumstances. First, the inverse problem is defined as the determination of the seismic-moment tensor from the far-field seismic waves (P and S waves). We…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-08-10 Bogdan Felix Apostol

We consider an inverse problem for a non-linear hyperbolic equation. We show that conformal structure of a Lorentzian manifold can be determined by the source-to-solution map evaluated along a single timelike curve. We use the microlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Medet Nursultanov , Lauri Oksanen , Leo Tzou

In the present paper we consider an inverse source problem for time-fractional mixed parabolic-hyperbolic equation with the Caputo derivative. In case, when hyperbolic part of the considered mixed type equation is wave equation, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Pengbin Feng , E. T. Karimov

The study of Einstein equations leads naturally to Cauchy problems with initial data on hypersurfaces which closely resemble hyperboloids in Minkowski space-time, and with initial data with polyhomogeneous asymptotics, that is, with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Piotr T. Chrusciel , Szymon Leski

This paper addresses a factorization method for imaging the support of a wave-number-dependent source function from multi-frequency data measured at a finite pair of symmetric receivers in opposite directions. The source function is given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Hongxia Guo , Guanghui Hu , Guanqiu Ma

We study an inverse source problem for the acoustic wave equation in a random waveguide. The goal is to estimate the source of waves from measurements of the acoustic pressure at a remote array of sensors. The waveguide effect is due to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Sebastian Acosta , Ricardo Alonso , Liliana Borcea