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An inverse problem of wave propagation into a weakly laterally inhomogeneous medium occupying a half-space is considered in the acoustic approximation. The half-space consists of an upper layer and a semi-infinite bottom separated with an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Blagovestchenskii , Y. Kurylev , V. Zalipaev

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 two new classes of inverse problems for a time-switched system in which a fractional wave equation (with Caputo derivative of order $\alpha \in (1,2)$) governs the dynamics on the interval $[0,a)$, and a fractional diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 E. T. Karimov , N. A. Murolimova

The inverse eigenvalue problem studies the possible spectra among matrices whose off-diagonal entries have their zero-nonzero patterns described by the adjacency of a graph $G$. In this paper, we refer to the $i$-nullity pair of a matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Aida Abiad , Bryan A. Curtis , Mary Flagg , H. Tracy Hall , Jephian C. -H. Lin , Bryan Shader

In this paper we study the inverse problem of determining the residual stress in Man's model using tomographic data. Theoretically, the tomographic data is obtained at zero approximation of geometrical optics for Man's residual stress…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Vladimir Sharafutdinov , Jenn-Nan Wang

We consider a heat equation and a wave equation in a spatial interval over a time interval. This article deals with inverse problems of determining sizes of spatial intervals by extra boundary data of solutions of the governing equations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-08 J. Apraiz , J. Cheng , A. Doubova , E. Fernández-Cara , M. Yamamoto

In this paper we consider the mathematical model of thermo- and photo-acoustic tomography for the recovery of the initial condition of a wave field from knowledge of its boundary values. Unlike the free-space setting, we consider the wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Sebastian Acosta , Carlos Montalto

We consider an inverse problem for the elastic wave of simultaneously reconstructing the impedance and the geometric information of the bounded body that is occupied by a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium from the measured Cauchy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Yao Sun , Yan Chang , Yukun Guo

We initiate the study of inverse source problems for quasilinear elliptic equations of the form \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \nabla \cdot (\gamma(x,u,\nabla u) \nabla u) = F & \text{in } \Omega, \\ u = f & \text{on } \partial\Omega,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Tony Liimatainen , Shubham Jaiswal

Consider a quantum graph consisting of a ring with two attached edges, and assume Kirchhoff-Neumann conditions hold at the internal vertices. Associated to this graph is a Schr\"{o}dinger type operator $L=-\Delta +q(x)$ with Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Sergei Avdonin , Julian Edward

We study the inverse problem of unique recovery of a complex-valued scalar function $V:\mathcal M \times \mathbb C\to \mathbb C$, defined over a smooth compact Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal M,g)$ with smooth boundary, given the Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Ali Feizmohammadi , Lauri Oksanen

We investigate the inverse problem of recovering an initial source for the wave equation with fractional attenuation, motivated by photoacoustic tomography (PAT). The attenuation is modeled by a Caputo fractional derivative of order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Sebastian Acosta , Benjamin Palacios

We consider Calder\'{o}n's inverse boundary value problems for a class of nonlinear Helmholtz Schr\"{o}dinger equations and Maxwell's equations in a bounded domain in $\R^n$. The main method is the higher-order linearization of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Xuezhu Lu

This paper deals with the inverse problem of recovering an arbitrary number of fractional damping terms in a wave equation. We develop several approaches on uniqueness and reconstruction, some of them relying on Tauberian theorems on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

We consider a fixed angle inverse scattering problem in the presence of a known Riemannian metric. First, assuming a no caustics condition, we study the direct problem by utilizing the progressing wave expansion. Under a symmetry assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Shiqi Ma , Mikko Salo

We consider the problem of reconstruction of the Cauchy data for the wave equation in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and $\mathbb{R}^2$ by the measurements of its solution on the boundary of the unit ball.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-09 M. I. Belishev , D. Langemann , A. S. Mikhaylov , V. S. Mikhaylov

This paper is concerned with an inverse wavenumber/frequency-dependent source problem for the Helmholtz equation. In two and three dimensions, the unknown source term is supposed to be compactly supported in spatial variables but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Mengjie Zhao , Suliang Si , Guanghui Hu

We show that a partial Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, where the measurement set is arbitrarily small, uniquely determines the time-dependent nonlinearity of order three or higher in a semi-linear wave equation up to natural obstructions on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Boya Liu , Weinan Wang

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

The two-dimensional transient problem that is studied concerns a semi-infinite crack in an isotropic solid comprising an infinite strip and a half-plane joined together and having the same elastic constants. The crack propagates along the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-08 Y. A. Antipov , A. V. Smirnov