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This is a survey of the inverse spectral problem on (mainly compact) Riemannian manifolds, with or without boundary. The emphasis is on wave invariants: on how wave invariants have been calculated and how they have been applied to concrete…
In this paper we consider two inverse problems on a closed connected Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$. The first one is a direct analog of the Gel'fand inverse boundary spectral problem. To formulate it, assume that $M$ is divided by a…
We consider the inverse problem for the wave equation which consists of determining an unknown space-dependent force function acting on a vibrating structure from Cauchy boundary data. Since only boundary data are used as measurements, the…
We consider a parabolic equation in a bounded domain $\OOO$ over a time interval $(0,T)$ with the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. We arbitrarily choose a subboundary $\Gamma \subset \ppp\OOO$. Then, we discuss an inverse problem of…
We consider a second-order hyperbolic equation on an open bounded domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ for $n\geq2$, with $C^2$-boundary $\Gamma=\pa\Omega=\bar{\Gamma_0\cup\Gamma_1}$, $\Gamma_0\cap\Gamma_1=\emptyset$, subject to…
In Part I we construct the upper bound, in the spirit of $\Gamma$- $\limsup$, achieved by multidimensional profiles, for some general classes of singular perturbation problems, with or without the prescribed differential constraint, taking…
We consider a variational problem modeling transition between flat and wrinkled region in a thin elastic sheet, and identify the $\Gamma$-limit as the sheet thickness goes to 0, thus extending the previous work of the first author [Bella,…
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…
Consider the geometric inverse problem: There is a set of delta-sources in spacetime that emit waves travelling at unit speed. If we know all the arrival times at the boundary cylinder of the spacetime, can we reconstruct the space, a…
In this article we are concerned with an inverse boundary value problem for a non-linear wave equation of divergence form with space dimension $n\geq 3$. In particular the so called the interior determination problem. This non-linear wave…
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…
The present manuscript consists of inverse problems for a coupled system of wave equations with potential in $\mathbb{R}^3$. By establishing the fundamental solution to the aforementioned operator, we study the uniqueness aspects of the…
We consider an inverse problem for a Westervelt type nonlinear wave equation with fractional damping. This equation arises in nonlinear acoustic imaging, and we show the forward problem is locally well-posed. We prove that the smooth…
We show existence and uniqueness for a linearized water wave problem in a two dimensional domain $G$ with corner, formed by two semi-axis $\Gamma_1$ and $\Gamma_2$ which intersect under an angle $\alpha\in (0,\pi ]$. The existence and…
This paper is concerned with the uniqueness in inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering with phaseless near-field data generated by superpositions of two incident plane waves at a fixed frequency. It can be proved that the unknown…
This paper is concerned with uniqueness in inverse acoustic scattering with phaseless far-field data at a fixed frequency. In our previous work ({\em SIAM J. Appl. Math. \bf78} (2018), 1737-1753), by utilizing spectral properties of the…
We study inverse boundary problems for semilinear Schr\"odinger equations on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds of dimensions $\ge 2$ with smooth boundary, at a large fixed frequency. We show that certain classes of cubic nonlinearities…
This paper analyzes the nonlinear correspondence between the reflectivity profile (model) and the plane wave impulse response at the boundary (data) for a three-dimensional half space consisting of a sequence of homogeneous horizontal…
This paper consists of two parts. In the first part we describe the recent works on the inverse problems for the wave equation in $(n+1)$-dimensional space equipped with pseudo-Riemannian metric with Lorentz signature. We study the…