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This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problem which aims to determine the spatially distributed dielectric constant coefficient of the 2D Helmholtz equation from multifrequency backscatter data associated with a single…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Trung Truong , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Michael Klibanov

We study time-harmonic scattering by a periodic array of penetrable, high-contrast obstacles with small period, confined to a bounded Lipschitz domain. The strong contrast between the obstacles and the background induces subwavelength…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Yuxin Du , Xin Fu , Wenjia Jing

This paper is concerned with the inverse time-harmonic elastic scattering problem of recovering unbounded rough surfaces in two dimensions. We assume that elastic plane waves with different directions are incident onto a rigid rough surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Guanghui Hu , Xiaoli Liu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

In this paper, the nonlocal reverse space-time derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation under nonzero boundary conditions is investigated using the Riemann-Hilbert (RH) approach. The direct scattering problem focuses on the analyticity,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-06-21 Xin-Yu Liu , Rui Guo

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

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem to recover a compactly supported Schr{\"o}dinger potential given the differential scattering cross section, i.e. the modulus, but not the phase of the scattering amplitude. To compensate for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Alexey Agaltsov , Thorsten Hohage , Roman Novikov

Fourier transform-based methods enable accurate, dispersion-free simulations of time-domain scattering problems by evaluating solutions to the Helmholtz equation at a discrete set of frequencies sufficient to approximate the inverse Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Oscar P. Bruno , Manuel A. Santana

In this paper, we study an inverse scattering problem associated with the time-harmonic Schr\"odinger equation where both the potential and the source terms are unknown. The source term is assumed to be a generalised Gaussian random…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Hongyu Liu , Shiqi Ma

We study scattering for the linear Helmholtz operator in two dimensions and develop a technique, which can be used to ascertain scattering of a given incident wave from very regular inhomogeneities. This technique is then applied to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Narek Hovsepyan , Michael S. Vogelius

We study an inverse scattering problem for a generic hyperbolic system of equations with an unknown coefficient called the reflectivity. The solution of the system models waves (sound, electromagnetic or elastic), and the reflectivity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky , Jörn Zimmerling

The initial value problem for the general coupled Hirota system with nonzero boundary conditions at infinity is solved by reporting a rigorous theory of the inverse scattering transform. With the help of a suitable uniformization variable,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Xiu-Bin Wang , Shou-Fu Tian

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

We consider the problem of reconstructing the shape of an impenetrable sound-soft obstacle from scattering measurements. The input data is assumed to be the far-field pattern generated when a plane wave impinges on an unknown obstacle from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Carlos Borges , Leslie Greengard

Exploiting the time-reversal invariance and reciprocal properties of the lossless wave equation enables elegantly simple solutions to complex wave-scattering problems, and is embodied in the time-reversal mirror. A time-reversal mirror…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-12 Matthew Frazier , Biniyam Taddese , Thomas Antonsen , Steven M. Anlage

Matrix generalization of the inverse scattering method is developed to solve the multicomponent nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with nonvanishing boundary conditions. It is shown that the initial value problem can be solved exactly. The…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun'ichi Ieda , Masaru Uchiyama , Miki Wadati

The paper aims to apply the inverse scattering transform to the defocusing Hirota equation with fully asymmetric non-zero boundary conditions (NZBCs), addressing scenarios in which the solution's limiting values at spatial infinities…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-01-31 Rusuo Ye , Peng-Fei Han , Yi Zhang

The present paper is concerned with a space-time homogenization problem for nonlinear diffusion equations with periodically oscillating (in space and time) coefficients. Main results consist of a homogenization theorem (i.e., convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Goro Akagi , Tomoyuki Oka

We are concerned with the inverse scattering problem of extracting the geometric structures of an unknown/inaccessible inhomogeneous medium by using the corresponding acoustic far-field measurement. Using the intrinsic geometric properties…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Jingzhi Li , Xiaofei Li , Hongyu Liu

We study a new approach to the problem of transparent boundary conditions for the Helmholtz equation in unbounded domains. Our approach is based on the minimization of an integral functional arising from a volume integral formulation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Giulio Ciraolo , Francesco Gargano , Vincenzo Sciacca

In this work, we construct numerical solutions to an inverse problem of a nonlinear Helmholtz equation defined in a spherical shell between two concentric spheres centered at the origin.Assuming that the values of the forward problem are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Q. T. Le Gia , H. N. Mhaskar