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We consider the multi-frequency inverse source problem for the scalar Helmholtz equation in the plane. The goal is to reconstruct the source term in the equation from measurements of the solution on a surface outside the support of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Mirza Karamehmedović , Adrian Kirkeby , Kim Knudsen

The paper is concerned with an inverse point source problem for the Helmholtz equation. It consists of recovering the locations and amplitudes of a finite number of radiative point sources inside a given inhomogeneous medium from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Gang Bao , Yuantong Liu , Faouzi Triki

This study addresses the inverse source problem for the fractional diffusion-wave equation, characterized by a source comprising spatial and temporal components. The investigation is primarily concerned with practical scenarios where data…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Lingyun Qiu , Jiwoon Sim

A novel method to solve inverse problems for the wave equation is introduced. The method is a combination of the boundary control method and an iterative time reversal scheme, leading to adaptive imaging of coefficient functions of the wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kenrick Bingham , Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Samuli Siltanen

This paper concerns the inverse source scattering problems of recovering random sources for acoustic and elastic waves. The underlying sources are assumed to be random functions driven by an additive white noise. The inversion process aims…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Zhipeng Yang , Yue Zhao

This paper is concerned with an inverse random source problem for the one-dimensional stochastic Helmholtz equation with attenuation. The source is assumed to be a microlocally isotropic Gaussian random field with its covariance operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Peijun Li , Xu Wang

This work considers a nonlinear inverse source problem in a coupled diffusion equation from the terminal observation. Theoretically, under some conditions on problem data, we build the uniqueness theorem for this inverse problem and show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Chunlong Sun , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

In this paper, we consider a wave equation on a bounded interval where the initial conditions are known (are zero) and we are rather interested in identifying an unknown source term $q(x)$ thanks to the measurement output $y$ which is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-04 Marianne Chapouly , Mazyar Mirrahimi

We analyze the inverse problem, originally formulated by Dix in geophysics, of reconstructing the wave speed inside a domain from boundary measurements associated with the single scattering of seismic waves. We consider a domain $\tilde M$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Maarten V. de Hoop , Sean F. Holman , Einar Iversen , Matti Lassas , Bjørn Ursin

We consider an inverse problem for the linear one-dimensional wave equation with variable coefficients consisting in determining an unknown source term from a boundary observation. A method to obtain approximations of this inverse problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Carlos Castro , Sorin Micu

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

We consider the inverse problem of recovering both an unknown electric current and the surrounding electromagnetic parameters of a medium from boundary measurements. This inverse problem arises in brain imaging. We show that under generic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Youjun Deng , Hongyu Liu , Gunther Uhlmann

This paper addresses the inverse source problem for a mixed-type fractional wave-diffusion-wave equation posed in a cylindrical domain. The governing equation involves a time-dependent variable-order fractional derivative, which enables the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Erkinjon Karimov , Muzaffar Toshpulatov

In this paper, we show the increasing stability of the inverse source problems for the acoustic wave equation in the full space R3.The goal is to understand increasing stability for wave equation in the time domain. If the time and spatial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Suliang Si

This paper concerns the inverse source problems for the time-harmonic elastic and electromagnetic wave equations. The goal is to determine the external force and the electric current density from boundary measurements of the radiated wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Gang Bao , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

This paper investigates the problem of reconstructing a random source from statistical phaseless data for the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation. The major challenge of this problem is non-uniqueness, which we overcome through a reference…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Qiao-Ping Chen , Hongyu Liu , Zejun Sun , Li-Li Wang , Guang-Hui Zheng

This article addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering both the wave speed coefficient and an unknown initial condition (acting as the source) for the multidimensional wave equation from a single passive boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yavar Kian , Hongyu Liu

We study the inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map at selected frequency as the data. We develop an explicit reconstruction of the wavespeed using a multi-level nonlinear projected…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-11 Elena Beretta , Maarten V. de Hoop , Lingyun Qiu , Otmar Scherzer

In this paper, we study an inverse scattering problem associated with the time-harmonic Schr\"odinger equation where both the potential and the source terms are unknown. The source term is assumed to be a generalised Gaussian random…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Hongyu Liu , Shiqi Ma

This paper is dedicated to addressing the simultaneous inversion problem involving the initial value and space-dependent source term in a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation. Firstly, we establish the uniqueness of the inverse problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Yun Zhang , Xiaoli Feng , Xiongbin Yan