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This study presents a frequency-domain, Hessian-free ray-Born inversion method for quantitative ultrasound tomography, extending the author's previous Hessian-based approach. Both approaches model acoustic wave propagation using a ray-based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Ashkan Javaherian

In this paper, we consider a control/shape optimization problem of a nonlinear acoustics-structure interaction model of PDEs, whereby acoustic wave propagation in a chamber is governed by the Westervelt equation, and the motion of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Amjad Tuffaha

We develop mathematical models for shape design and topology optimization in structural contact problems involving friction between elastic and rigid bodies. The governing mechanical constraint is a nonlinear, non-smooth, and non-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Yixin Tan , Fang Feng , Shengfeng Zhu

The problem of propagating nonlinear acoustic waves is considered; the solution to which, both with and without damping, having been obtained to-date starting from the Navier-Stokes-Duhem equations together with the continuity and thermal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Markus Scholle

The Kuznetsov equation is a classical wave model of acoustics that incorporates quadratic gradient nonlinearities. When its strong damping vanishes, it undergoes a singular behavior change, switching from a parabolic-like to a hyperbolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Benjamin Dörich , Vanja Nikolić

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

Contactless ultrasound power transfer (UPT) has emerged as one of the promising techniques for wireless power transfer. Physical processes supporting UPT include the vibrations at a transmitting/acoustic source element, acoustic wave…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-10-09 Aarushi Bhargava , Shima Shahab

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

Acoustic wave propagation in a one-dimensional waveguide connected with Helmholtz resonators is studied numerically. Finite amplitude waves and viscous boundary layers are considered. The model consists of two coupled evolution equations: a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Bruno Lombard , Jean-François Mercier

The paper deals with a family of evolution problems arising in the physical modeling of small amplitude acoustic phenomena occurring in a fluid, bounded by a surface of extended reaction. They are all derived in a Lagrangian framework. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Enzo Vitillaro

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

In this work, we consider the propagation of acoustic waves in unbounded domains characterized by a constant wavenumber, except possibly in a bounded region. The geometry of this inhomogeneity is assumed to be uncertain, and we are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Fernando Henríquez , Ignacio Labarca-Figueroa

We provide a justification with rigorous error estimates showing that the leading term in weakly nonlinear geometric optics expansions of highly oscillatory reflecting pulses is close to the uniquely determined exact solution for small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-22 Jean-Francois Coulombel , Mark Williams

This paper provides a theoretical foundation for some common formulations of inverse problems in wave propagation, based on hyperbolic systems of linear integro-differential equations with bounded and measurable coefficients. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kirk D. Blazek , Christiaan C. Stolk , William W. Symes

We investigate an overdetermined Torsion problem, with a non-constant positively homogeneous boundary constraint on the gradient. We interpret this problem as the Euler equation of a shape optimization problems, we prove existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Chiara Bianchini , Antoine Henrot , Paolo Salani

Linear and nonlinear ion-acoustic waves are studied in a fluid model for non-relativistic, unmagnetized quantum plasma with electrons with an arbitrary degeneracy degree. The equation of state for electrons follows from a local Fermi-Dirac…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Fernando Haas , Shahzad Mahmood

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 establish the existence of weak solutions of a nonlinear radiation-type boundary value problem for elliptic equation on divergence form with discontinuous leading coefficient. Quantitative estimates play a crucial role on the real…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-23 Luisa Consiglieri

We analyse the existing derivation of the models of non-linear acoustics such as the Kuznetsov equation, the NPE equation and the KZK equation. The technique of introducing a corrector in the derivation ansatz allows to consider the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Anna Rozanova-Pierrat

Motivated by simulations of ultrasound-enhanced drug delivery, this work presents the numerical analysis of a mathematical model that captures the influence of ultrasound waves on the diffusivity of the drug. The system under study consists…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Femke de Wit , Vanja Nikolić