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We consider an undetermined coefficient inverse problem for a non-\\linear partial differential equation occurring in high intensity ultrasound propagation as used in acoustic tomography. In particular, we investigate the recovery of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

We consider an undetermined coefficient inverse problem for a nonlinear partial differential equation describing high intensity ultrasound propagation as widely used in medical imaging and therapy. The usual nonlinear term in the standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

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 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

This paper considers the Westervelt equation, one of the most widely used models in nonlinear acoustics, and seeks to recover two spatially-dependent parameters of physical importance from time-trace boundary measurements. Specifically,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

Nonlinearity parameter tomography leads to the problem of identifying a coefficient in a nonlinear wave equation (such as the Westervelt equation) modeling ultrasound propagation. In this paper we transfer this into frequency domain, where…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

In this paper we show local (and partially global) in time existence for the Westervelt equation with several versions of nonlinear damping. This enables us to prove well-posedness with spatially varying $L_\infty$-coefficients, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-25 Rainer Brunnhuber , Barbara Kaltenbacher , Petronela Radu

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

The importance of ultrasound is well established in the imaging of human tissue. In order to enhance image quality by exploiting nonlinear effects, recently techniques such as harmonic imaging and nonlinearity parameter tomography have been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Barbara Kaltenbacher

We study the non-diffusive Westervelt equation in the weakly nonlinear regime. We show that the leading profile equation is of Burgers' type. We show that a compactly supported nonlinearity $\alpha$ can be reconstructed from the tilt of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Nikolas Eptaminitakis , Plamen Stefanov

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

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Benjamin Rainer , Barbara Kaltenbacher

We consider the ultrasound imaging problem governed by a nonlinear wave equation of Westervelt type with variable wave speed. We show that the coefficient of nonlinearity can be recovered uniquely from knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Sebastian Acosta , Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

We investigate the inverse problem of recovering an initial source for the wave equation with fractional attenuation, motivated by photoacoustic tomography (PAT). The attenuation is modeled by a Caputo fractional derivative of order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Sebastian Acosta , Benjamin Palacios

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

This paper deals with the inverse problem of recovering an arbitrary number of fractional damping terms in a wave equation. We develop several approaches on uniqueness and reconstruction, some of them relying on Tauberian theorems on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

A new method is proposed to recover the water-wave surface elevation from pressure data obtained at the bottom of the fluid. The new method requires the numerical solution of a nonlocal nonlinear equation relating the pressure and the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-12-09 Katie Oliveras , Vishal Vasan , Bernard Deconinck , Diane Henderson

The aim of this paper is to put the problem of vibroacoustic imaging into the mathematical framework of inverse problems (more precisely, coefficient identification in PDEs) and regularization. We present a model in frequency domain, prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Barbara Kaltenbacher

We introduce in this document a direct method allowing to solve numerically inverse type problems for linear hyperbolic equations. We first consider the reconstruction of the full solution of the wave equation posed in $\Omega\times (0,T)$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Nicolae Cindea , Arnaud Munch

We develop a numerical method for the Westervelt equation, an important equation in nonlinear acoustics, in the form where the attenuation is represented by a class of non-local in time operators. A semi-discretisation in time based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Katherine Baker , Lehel Banjai , Mariya Ptashnyk
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