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We develop a linearized boundary control method for the inverse boundary value problem of determining a density in the acoustic wave equation. The objective is to reconstruct an unknown perturbation in a known background density from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Lauri Oksanen , Tianyu Yang , Yang Yang

We formulate the immersed-boundary method (IBM) as an inverse problem. A control variable is introduced on the boundary of a larger domain that encompasses the target domain. The optimal control is the one that minimizes the mismatch…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Jianfeng Yan , Jason Edward Hicken

We consider an inverse source problem for the Helmholtz equation in a bounded domain. The problem is to reconstruct the shape of the support of a source term from the Cauchy data on the boundary of the solution of the governing equation. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Masaru Ikehata

This paper studies an inverse boundary value problem for a semilinear Helmholtz equation with Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\ge2$). The objective is to recover the unknown linear and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Long-Ling Du , Zejun Sun , Li-Li Wang , Guang-Hui Zheng

We introduce in this document a direct method allowing to solve numerically inverse type problems for linear hyperbolic equations. We first consider the reconstruction of the full solution of the wave equation posed in $\Omega\times (0,T)$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Nicolae Cindea , Arnaud Munch

We study an inverse boundary value problem for the nonlinear wave equation in $2 + 1$ dimensions. The objective is to recover an unknown potential $q(x, t)$ from the associated Dirichlet-to-Neumann map using real-valued waves. We propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Markus Harju , Suvi Anttila , Teemu Tyni

We consider an inverse problem of recovering a potential associated to a semi-linear wave equation with a quadratic nonlinearity in $1 + 1$ dimensions. We develop a numerical scheme to determine the potential from a noisy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Teemu Tyni

This paper concerns an inverse elastic scattering problem which is to determine a rigid obstacle from time domain scattered field data for a single incident plane wave. By using Helmholtz decomposition, we reduce the initial-boundary value…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Lu Zhao , Heping Dong , Fuming Ma

Consider an inverse problem of the simultaneous recovery of boundary impedance and internal conductivity in the electrical impedance tomography (EIT) model using local internal measurement data, which is governed by a boundary value problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Jinchao Pan , Jijun Liu

In this article we are concerned with an inverse initial boundary value problem for a non-linear wave equation in space dimension $n\geq 2$. In particular we consider the so called interior determination problem. This non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Gen Nakamura , Manmohan Vashisth , Michiyuki Watanabe

Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a rigid obstacle embedded in a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium in two dimensions. In this paper, a novel boundary integral formulation is proposed and its highly accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

We consider the inverse boundary value problem for the system of equations describing elastic waves in isotropic media on a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^3$ via a finite-time Laplace transform. The data is the dynamical Dirichlet-to-Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Maarten V. de Hoop , Gen Nakamura , Jian Zhai

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

There are two main approaches to solve inverse coefficient determination problems for wave equations: the Boundary Control method and an approach based on geometric optics. These notes focus on the Boundary Control method, but we will have…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Medet Nursultanov , Lauri Oksanen

This paper investigates an inverse boundary value problem for a semilinear strongly damped wave equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions in Sobolev spaces of functions bounded in time on $\R$, including periodic and almost periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Irina Kmit , Nataliya Protsakh , Viktor Tkachenko

We analyze the inverse problem to reconstruct the shape of a three dimensional homogeneous dielectric obstacle from the knowledge of noisy far field data. The forward problem is solved by a system of second kind boundary integral equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Thorsten Hohage , Frédérique Le Louër

This paper concerns the reconstruction of a scalar coefficient of a second-order elliptic equation in divergence form posed on a bounded domain from internal data. This theory finds applications in multi-wave imaging, greedy methods to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Faouzi Triki , Tao Yin

In this paper, we investigate the inverse problem on determining the spatial component of the source term in a hyperbolic equation with time-dependent principal part. Based on a newly established Carleman estimate for general hyperbolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Daijun Jiang , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

This paper addresses an inverse cavity scattering problem associated with the biharmonic wave equation in two dimensions. The objective is to determine the domain or shape of the cavity. The Green's representations are demonstrated for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Heping Dong , Peijun Li

In this paper, we prove the local uniqueness of an inverse problem arising in the nonstationary flow of a nonhomogeneous incompressible asymmetric fluid in a bounded domain with smooth boundary. The direct problem is an initial-boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Aníbal Coronel , Marko Rojas-Medar