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We consider an inverse problem governed by the Westervelt equation with linear diffusivity and quadratic-type nonlinearity. The objective of this problem is to recover all the coefficients of this nonlinear partial differential equation. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Sebastian Acosta , Benjamin Palacios

We show that a partial Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, where the measurement set is arbitrarily small, uniquely determines the time-dependent nonlinearity of order three or higher in a semi-linear wave equation up to natural obstructions on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Boya Liu , Weinan Wang

This paper addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering multiple unknown parameters for semilinear wave equations from boundary measurements. We consider an initial-boundary value problem for a wave equation with a general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Dong Qiu , Xiang Xu , Yeqiong Ye , Ting Zhou

We consider inverse boundary value problems for the Jordan-Moore-Gibson-Thompson (JMGT) equation in nonlinear acoustics with quadratic nonlinearities of Kuznetsov-type and Westervelt-type. We show that the associated boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Dong Qiu , Xiang Xu , Yeqiong Ye , Ting Zhou

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

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

We study the inverse problem for a semilinear wave equation on metric tree graphs. From the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map defined at all but one of the boundary vertices, we recover unknown connectivity of the graph, lengths of the edges, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Sergei Avdonin , Matti Lassas , Jinpeng Lu , Medet Nursultanov , Lauri Oksanen

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 consider the inverse problem of recovering an isotropic quasilinear conductivity from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map when the conductivity depends on the solution and its gradient. We show that the conductivity can be recovered on an open…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Ravi Shankar

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 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 consider the problem of recovering a nonlinear potential function in a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on transversally anisotropic manifolds from the linearized Dirichlet-to-Neumann map at a large wavenumber. By calibrating the complex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Shuai Lu , Jian Zhai

We present a novel approach for the inverse problem in electrical impedance tomography based on regularized quadratic regression. Our contribution introduces a new formulation for the forward model in the form of a nonlinear integral…

Geophysics · Physics 2012-05-29 Nick Polydorides , Alireza Aghasi , Eric L. Miller

This is a continuation of our study [Uhlmann-Zhai, JMPA, 2021] on an inverse boundary value problem for a nonlinear elastic wave equation. We prove that all the linear and nonlinear coefficients can be recovered from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

The goal of this work is to improve focusing of high-intensity ultrasound by modifying the geometry of acoustic lenses through shape optimization. The shape optimization problem is formulated by introducing a tracking-type cost functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Markus Muhr , Vanja Nikolić , Barbara Wohlmuth , Linus Wunderlich

The article deals with a classical inverse problem: the computation of the refractive index of a medium from ultrasound time-of-flight (TOF) measurements. This problem is very popular in seismics but also for tomographic problems in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Udo Schroeder , Thomas Schuster

In this paper, the inverse problem of reconstructing reflectivity function of a medium is examined within a blind deconvolution framework. The ultrasound pulse is estimated using higher-order statistics, and Wiener filter is used to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Roberto Henry Herrera , Rubén Orozco , Manuel Rodríguez

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for a nonlinear elastic wave equation which was studied in [de Hoop, Uhlmann, Wang. Math. Ann. (2019) doi:10.1007/s00208-018-01796-y]. We show that all the parameters appearing in the equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

Ultrasound reflection tomography is widely used to image large complex specimens that are only accessible from a single side, such as well systems and nuclear power plant containment walls. Typical methods for inverting the measurement rely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-01 Hani Almansouri , S. V. Venkatakrishnan , Gregery T. Buzzard , Charles A. Bouman , Hector Santos-Villalobos

The paper studies an imaging problem in the diffusive ultrasound-modulated bioluminescence tomography with partial boundary measurement in an anisotropic medium. Assuming plane-wave modulation, we transform the imaging problem to an inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Tianyu Yang , Yang Yang