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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

A quality-Bayesian approach, combining the direct sampling method and the Bayesian inversion, is proposed to reconstruct the locations and intensities of the unknown acoustic sources using partial data. First, we extend the direct sampling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Zhaoxing Li , Yanfang Liu , Jiguang Sun , Liwei Xu

This paper considers the inverse problem of identifying the source term of parabolic equations from sparse boundary measurements. We used data from moving sensors to locate the unknown source term. This work first proves the uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Qiling Gu , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

In this paper, we consider the obstacle scattering problem for biharmonic equations with a Dirichlet boundary condition in both two and three dimensions. Some basic properties are first derived for the biharmonic scattering solutions, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Chengyu Wu , Jiaqing Yang

This paper develops a discrete data-driven approach for solving the inverse source problem of the wave equation with final time measurements. Focusing on the $L^2$-Tikhonov regularization method, we analyze its convergence under two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Qiling Gu , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

We consider the elastic wave scattering problem involving rigid obstacles. This work addresses the inverse problem of reconstructing the position and shape of such obstacles using far-field measurements. A novel monotonicity-based approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Mengjiao Bai , Huaian Diao , Weisheng Zhou

Inverse source approaches have shown their relevance for several applications in the past years. They rely on the solution of an ill-posed problem where near-field/current data is reconstructed starting from far-field (or less informative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Ermanno Citraro , Alexandre Dély , Adrien Merlini , Francesco Paolo Andriulli

This paper concerns the inverse source problem for the time-harmonic wave equation in a one dimensional domain. The goal is to determine the source function from the boundary measurements. The problem is challenging due to complexity of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Elham Sohrabi

This work is dedicated to uniqueness and numerical algorithms for determining the point sources of the biharmonic wave equation using scattered fields at sparse sensors. We first show that the point sources in both $\mathbb{R}^2$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Xiaodong Liu , Qingxiang Shi , Jing Wang

This paper introduces a multi-frequency factorization method for imaging a time-dependent source, specifically to recover its spatial support and the associated excitation instants. Using far-field data from two opposite directions, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Guanqiu Ma , Hongxia Guo , Guanghui Hu

We consider a general setting for dynamic tensor field tomography in an inhomogeneous refracting and absorbing medium as inverse source problem for the associated transport equation. Following Fermat's principle the Riemannian metric in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Lukas Vierus , Thomas Schuster

In this paper we investigate direct and inverse problems for time-fractional pseudo-parabolic equations associated with the Jacobi operator. The existence and uniqueness of the solutions are proved. Also, the stability result of the inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Bayan Bekbolat , Niyaz Tokmagambetov

We consider the subsonic moving point source problem for the scalar wave equation in $\pmb{R}^3$, proving a regularity result for the direct problem, and uniqueness and stability results for the inverse problem. We then present and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Sára Wang , Mirza Karamehmedović , Faouzi Triki

A problem of a wave identification is formulated. An example is considered in conditions of one-dimensional Cauchy problem for conventional string equation in matrix form and its inhomogeneous two-component version. The acoustic and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Sergey Leble , Irina Vereshchagina

We study an inverse acoustic scattering problem in half-space with a probabilistic impedance boundary value condition. The Robin coefficient (surface impedance) is assumed to be a Gaussian random function $\lambda = \lambda(x)$ with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-18 Tapio Helin , Matti Lassas , Lassi Päivärinta

Spatially incoherent light sources, such as spontaneously emitting atoms, naively require Maxwell's equations to be solved many times to obtain the total emission, which becomes computationally intractable in conjunction with large-scale…

This paper considers the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic plane waves by a bounded, inhomogeneous, penetrable obstacle with embedded objects inside. A new method is proposed to prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

The inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation is considered, with partial data. Here it is shown that under certain smoothness conditions on the scattering and absorption coefficients, one can recover sources supported in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Mark Hubenthal

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-16 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

We consider the inverse source problem in the parabolic equation, where the unknown source possesses the semi-discrete formulation. Theoretically, we prove that the flux data from any nonempty open subset of the boundary can uniquely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Guang Lin , Zecheng Zhang , Zhidong Zhang