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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 the inverse scattering problem to reconstruct a local perturbation of a given inhomogeneous periodic layer in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$, using near field measurements of the scattered wave on an open set of the boundary above the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Alexander Konschin , Armin Lechleiter

We propose in this paper a globally numerical method to solve a phaseless coefficient inverse problem: how to reconstruct the spatially distributed refractive index of scatterers from the intensity (modulus square) of the full complex…

We consider an inverse problem for an inhomogeneous wave equation with discrete-in-time sources, modeling a seismic rupture. We assume that the sources occur along a path with subsonic velocity, and that data are collected over time on some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Maarten V. de Hoop , Lauri Oksanen , Justin Tittelfitz

This paper offers an extensive exploration of nonradiating sources for the two- and three-dimensional biharmonic wave equations. Various equivalent characterizations are derived to reveal the nature of a nonradiating source. Additionally,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Peijun Li , Jue Wang

Inverse problem to recover simultaneously a scalar coefficient, order of a time-fractional derivative, parameters of multiterm fractional Laplacian and a time-dependent source term occurring in a superdiffusion equation from measurements…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Hany Gerges , Jaan Janno

This paper concerns an inverse boundary value problem of recovering a zeroth order time-dependent term of a semi-linear wave equation on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. We show that an unknown potential $q$ in the non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Teemu Tyni

For a time-independent potential $q\in L^\infty$, consider the source-to-solution operator that maps a source $f$ to the solution $u=u(t,x)$ of $(\Box+q)u=f$ in Euclidean space with an obstacle, where we impose on $u$ vanishing Cauchy data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Leonard Busch , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen , Mikko Salo

In this paper, we investigate the direct and linear inverse problems of identifying time-dependent and time-independent source terms in a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation, using measured data at an interior point of the time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Rahmonov Askar Ahmadovich

We deal with two dynamical systems associated with a Riemannian manifold with boundary. The first one is a system governed by the scalar wave equation, the second is governed by the Maxwell equations. Both of the systems are controlled from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. I. Belishev , M. N. Demchenko

We consider the inverse problem for the general transport equation with external field, source term and absorption coefficient. We show that the source and the absorption coefficients can be uniquely reconstructed from the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Ru-Yu Lai , Qin Li

This work is concerned with the inverse source problem of locating multiple multipolar sources from boundary measurements for the Helmholtz equation. We develop simple and effective sampling schemes for location acquisition of the sources…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-18 Deyue Zhang , Yukun Guo , Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu

Partial differential equations are central to describing many physical phenomena. In many applications these phenomena are observed through a sensor network, with the aim of inferring their underlying properties. Leveraging from certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 John Murray-Bruce , Pier Luigi Dragotti

A new sampling method for inverse scattering problems is proposed to process far field data of one incident wave. As the linear sampling method, the method sets up ill-posed integral equations and uses the (approximate) solutions to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Juan Liu , Jiguang Sun

We consider the inverse hyperbolic problem of recovering all spatial dependent coefficients, which are the wave speed, the damping coefficient, potential coefficient and gradient coefficient, in a second-order hyperbolic equation defined on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Shitao Liu , Antonio Pierrottet , Scott Scruggs

We introduced in [arXiv:1106.3204] a method to locate discontinuities of a wave speed in dimension two from acoustic boundary measuments modelled by the hyperbolic Neumann-to-Dirichlet operator. Here we extend the method for sound hard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Lauri Oksanen

Source extension is a reformulation of inverse problems in wave propagation, that at least in some cases leads to computationally tractable iterative solution methods. The core subproblem in all source extension methods is the solution of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-01 William W. Symes

In the present work, we discuss a unique solvability of an inverse-source problem with integral transmitting condition for time-fractional mixed type equation in a rectangular domain, where the unknown source term depends on space variable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-01 Erkinjon Karimov , Nasser Al-Salti , Sebti Kerbal

This paper is concerned with the inverse source problem of reconstructing an unknown acoustic excitation from phaseless measurements of the radiated fields away at multiple frequencies. It is well known that the non-uniqueness issue is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Deyue Zhang , Yukun Guo , Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu

An inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation in a bounded domain is considered. The problem is to extract information about an unknown obstacle embedded in the domain with unknown impedance boundary condition (the Robin…

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