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Many inverse problems have to deal with complex, evolving and often not exactly known geometries, e.g. as domains of forward problems modeled by partial differential equations. This makes it desirable to use methods which are robust with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-13 Martin Burger , Ole Loseth Elvetun , Matthias Schlottbom

In this article, we study a direct and an inverse problem for the bi-wave operator $(\Box^2)$ along with second and lower order time-dependent perturbations. In the direct problem, we prove that the operator is well-posed, given initial and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Sombuddha Bhattacharyya , Pranav Kumar

In this chapter, we mainly review theoretical results on inverse source problems for diffusion equations with the Caputo time-fractional derivatives of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. Our survey covers the following types of inverse problems: 1.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Yikan Liu , Zhiyuan Li , Masahiro Yamamoto

We study the direct and inverse scattering problems when the incident electromagnetic field is a time harmonic point- generated wave in a chiral medium and the scatterer is a perfectly conducting sphere. The exact Green s function and the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-12-12 Nikolaos Berketis , Christodoulos Athanasiadis

We describe a general strategy for the verification of variational source condition by formulating two sufficient criteria describing the smoothness of the solution and the degree of ill-posedness of the forward operator in terms of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Thorsten Hohage , Frederic Weidling

We present two uniqueness results for the inverse problem of determining an index of refraction by the corresponding acoustic far-field measurement encoded into the scattering amplitude. The first one is a local uniqueness in determining a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-28 Guanghui Hu , Hongyu Liu

In this work, we investigate the stability issue of the inverse problem of determining the locations and time-dependent amplitudes of point sources in a parabolic equation with a non-self adjoint elliptic operator from boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Kuang Huang , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Faouzi Triki

In this paper, we propose a direct probing method for the inverse problem based on the Eikonal equation. For the Eikonal equation with a point source, the viscosity solution represents the least travel time of wave fields from the source to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Kazufumi Ito , Ying Liang

We consider the inverse problem of determining the initial states or the source term of a hyperbolic equation damped by some non-local time-fractional derivative. This framework is relevant to medical imaging such as thermoacoustic or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Xinchi Huang , Yavar Kian , Eric Soccorsi , Masahiro Yamamoto

Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic acoustic plane wave by a bounded elastic obstacle which is immersed in a homogeneous acoustic medium. This paper concerns an inverse acoustic-elastic interaction problem, which is to determine the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

This work deals with an inverse source problem for the biharmonic wave equation. A two-stage numerical method is proposed to identify the unknown source from the multi-frequency phaseless data. In the first stage, we introduce some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Yue Zhao

This paper is concerned with uniqueness in inverse acoustic scattering with phaseless far-field data at a fixed frequency. The main difficulty of this problem is the so-called translation invariance property of the modulus of the far-field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Xiaoxu Xu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

In this paper we consider an inverse problem for the $n$-dimensional random Schr\"{o}dinger equation $(\Delta-q+k^2)u = 0$. We study the scattering of plane waves in the presence of a potential $q$ which is assumed to be a Gaussian random…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-13 Pedro Caro , Tapio Helin , Matti Lassas

We study the inverse source problem for the semilinear wave equation \[ (\Box_g + q_1)u + q_2 u^2 = F, \] on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. We demonstrate that the coefficients $q_1$ and $q_2$, as well as the source term $F$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Valter Pohjola , Teemu Tyni

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

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

We consider the inverse source problem of determining an acoustic source from multi-frequency phaseless far-field data. By supplementing some reference point sources to the inverse source model, we develop a novel strategy for recovering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Deyue Zhang , Yukun Guo , Fenglin Sun , Xianchao Wang

This article is devoted to the simultaneous resolution of three inverse problems, among the most important formulation of inverse problems for partial differential equations, stated for some class of diffusion equations from a single…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Yavar Kian

This paper presents a fast and robust numerical method for reconstructing point-like sources in the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations given Cauchy data at a fixed frequency. This is an electromagnetic inverse source problem with broad…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Isaac Harris , Thu Le , Dinh-Liem Nguyen

This paper is concerned with the inverse random source problem for a stochastic time fractional diffusion equation, where the source is assumed to be driven by a Gaussian random field. The direct problem is shown to be well-posed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Yuxuan Gong , Peijun Li , Xu Wang , Xiang Xu