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A mathematical method for through-wall imaging via wave phenomena in the time domain is introduced. The method makes use of a single reflected wave over a finite time interval and gives us a criterion whether a penetrable obstacle exists or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Masaru Ikehata

The inverse scattering problem for biharmonic waves, governing flexural vibrations of elastic plates, presents fundamental analytical challenges distinct from acoustic inverse problems due to the fourth-order differential operator and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Tielei Zhu , Zhihao Ge , Bangmin Wu

An inverse obstacle scattering problem for the wave governed by the Maxwell system in the time domain, in particular, over a finite time interval is considered. It is assumed that the electric field $\mbox{\boldmath $E$}$ and magnetic field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Masaru Ikehata

The Probe Method is an analytical reconstruction scheme for inverse obstacle problems utilizing the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map associated with the governing partial differential equation. It consists of two distinct parts: Side A and Side B.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Masaru Ikehata

This work is concerned with an inverse elastic scattering problem of identifying the unknown rigid obstacle embedded in an open space filled with a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium. A Newton-type iteration method relying on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Hongyu Liu , Deyue Zhang

We consider the obstacle problem with two irregular reflecting barriers for the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for semilinear parabolic equations with measure data. We prove the existence and uniqueness of renormalized solutions of the problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-24 Tomasz Klimsiak , Andrzej Rozkosz

In this paper a wave is generated by an initial data whose support is localized at the outside of unknown obstacles and observed in a limited time on a known closed surface or the same position as the support of the initial data. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Masaru Ikehata

An inverse problem of finding an obstacle and the boundary condition on its surface from the fixed-energy scattering data is studied. A new method is developed for a proof of the uniqueness results. The method does not use the discreteness…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm

The probe and singular sources methods are two well-known classical direct reconstruction methods in inverse obstacle problems governed by partial differential equations. In this paper, by considering an inverse obstacle problem governed by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Masaru Ikehata

This paper is concerned with analysis of electromagnetic wave scattering by an obstacle which is embedded in a two-layered lossy medium separated by an unbounded rough surface. Given a dipole point source, the direct problem is to determine…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Peijun Li , Jue Wang , Lei Zhang

An inverse obstacle problem governed by the Stokes system in the time domain is considered. Two types of extraction formulae about the geometry of an unknown obstacle are given by using the most recent version of the time domain enclosure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Masaru Ikehata

This article is concerned with the reconstruction of obstacle $\O$ immersed in a fluid flowing in a bounded domain $\Omega$ in the two dimensional case. We assume that the fluid motion is governed by the Stokes-Brinkmann equations. We make…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Mourad Hrizi , Rakia Malek , Maatoug Hassine

Let $A\in\mathrm{Sym}(n\times n)$ be an elliptic 2-tensor. Consider the anisotropic fractional Schr\"odinger operator $\mathscr{L}_A^s+q$, where $\mathscr{L}_A^s:=(-\nabla\cdot(A(x)\nabla))^s$, $s\in (0, 1)$ and $q\in L^\infty$. We are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Xinlin Cao , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Hongyu Liu

This paper is concerned with an inverse obstacle problem which employs the dynamical scattering data of acoustic wave over a finite time interval. The unknown obstacle is assumed to be sound-soft one. The governing equation of the wave is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Masaru Ikehata

This work addresses an inverse problem for a semi-discrete parabolic equation, consisting of identifying the right-hand side of the equation from solution measurements at an intermediate time and within a spatial subdomain. We apply this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Rodrigo Lecaros , Juan López-Ríos , Ariel A. Pérez

This paper considers an inverse problem for the classical wave equation in an exterior domain. It is a mathematical interpretation of an inverse obstacle problem which employs the dynamical scattering data of acoustic wave over a finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Masaru Ikehata

We consider the time-harmonic elastic wave scattering from a general (possibly anisotropic) inhomogeneous medium with an embedded impenetrable obstacle. We show that the impenetrable obstacle can be effectively approximated by an isotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Zhengjian Bai , Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Qingle Meng

Based upon elements of the modern Pseudoanalytic Function Theory, we analyse a new method for numerically approaching the solution of the Dirichlet boundary value problem, corresponding to the two-dimensional Electrical Impedance Equation.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-23 M. P. Ramirez T. , C. M. A. Robles G. , R. A. Hernandez-Becerril

A system of semi-discrete coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations is studied. To show the complete integrability of the model with multiple components, we extend the discrete version of the inverse scattering method for the…

solv-int · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Tsuchida , H. Ujino , M. Wadati

We consider the obstacle problem with irregular barriers for semilinear elliptic equation involving measure data and operator corresponding to a general quasi-regular Dirichlet form. We prove existence and uniqueness of a solution as well…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Tomasz Klimsiak