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We consider an inverse problem arising in nonlinear ultrasound imaging. The propagation of ultrasound waves is modeled by a quasilinear wave equation. We make measurements at the boundary of the medium encoded in the Dirichlet-to-Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Gunther Uhlmann , Yang Zhang

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

The Westervelt equation models the propagation of nonlinear acoustic waves in a regime well-suited for applications such as medical ultrasound imaging. In this work, we prove that the nonlinear parameter, as well as the sound speed, can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Mike Wendels

In this paper, we consider an inverse problem for a nonlinear wave equation with a damping term and a general nonlinear term. This problem arises in nonlinear acoustic imaging and has applications in medical imaging and other fields. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Yang Zhang

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 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 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

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

This article is devoted to forward and inverse problems associated with time-independent semilinear nonlocal wave equations. We first establish comprehensive well-posedness results for some semilinear nonlocal wave equations. The main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Yi-Hsuan Lin , Teemu Tyni , Philipp Zimmermann

We present a non-iterative algorithm to reconstruct the isotropic acoustic wave speed from the measurement of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map. The algorithm is designed based on the boundary control method and involves only computations that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Tianyu Yang , Yang Yang

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 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

In this paper we consider the inverse problem of vibro-acoustography, a technique for enhancing ultrasound imaging by making use of nonlinear effects. It amounts to determining two spatially variable coefficients in a system of PDEs…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Barbara Kaltenbacher ans teresa Rauscher

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for a model time-harmonic equation of acoustic tomography of moving fluid with variable current velocity, sound speed, density and absorption. In the present article it is assumed that at fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Alexey Agaltsov

In this article we are concerned with an inverse boundary value problem for a non-linear wave equation of divergence form with space dimension $n\geq 3$. In particular the so called the interior determination problem. This non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Gen Nakamura , Manmohan Vashisth

We consider the linearized electrical impedance tomography problem in two dimensions on the unit disk. By a linearization around constant coefficients and using a trigonometric basis, we calculate the linearized Dirichlet-to-Neumann…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Stefan Kindermann

We consider an inverse problem of recovering a potential associated to a semi-linear wave equation with a quadratic nonlinearity in $1 + 1$ dimensions. We develop a numerical scheme to determine the potential from a noisy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Teemu Tyni

We study an inverse boundary value problem for the nonlinear wave equation in $2 + 1$ dimensions. The objective is to recover an unknown potential $q(x, t)$ from the associated Dirichlet-to-Neumann map using real-valued waves. We propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Markus Harju , Suvi Anttila , Teemu Tyni

We consider the inverse problem of recovering a connection on a complex vector bundle over a compact smooth Riemannian manifold with boundary from a Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DN) map at a high fixed frequency. We construct Gaussian beams using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Simon St-Amant

We address the inverse problem of recovering the stiffness tensor and density of mass from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. We study the invariance of the Euclidean and Riemannian elastic wave equation under coordinate transformations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Joonas Ilmavirta , Hjørdis Schlüter
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