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The article deals with a classical inverse problem: the computation of the refractive index of a medium from ultrasound time-of-flight (TOF) measurements. This problem is very popular in seismics but also for tomographic problems in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Udo Schroeder , Thomas Schuster

The forward problem here is the Cauchy problem for a 1D hyperbolic PDE with a variable coefficient in the principal part of the operator. That coefficient is the spatially distributed dielectric constant. The inverse problem consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Alexey Smirnov , Michael Klibanov , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

To compute the spatially distributed dielectric constant from the backscattering data, we study a coefficient inverse problem for a 1D hyperbolic equation. To solve the inverse problem, we establish a new version of Carleman estimate and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Michael V. Klibanov , Thuy T. Le , Loc H. Nguyen , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

Many naturally-occuring models in the sciences are well-approximated by simplified models, using multiscale techniques. In such settings it is natural to ask about the relationship between inverse problems defined by the original problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Kit Newton , Qin Li , Andrew Stuart

This paper is concerned with the convergence of a series associated with a certain version of the convexification method. That version has been recently developed by the research group of the first author for solving coefficient inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen

Accurate photometric and kinematic modelling of disc galaxies requires the inclusion of radiative transfer models. Due to the complexity of the radiative transfer equation (RTE), sophisticated techniques are required. Various techniques…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Maarten Baes , Herwig Dejonghe

The inverse radiative transfer problem finds broad applications in medical imaging, atmospheric science, astronomy, and many other areas. This problem intends to recover the optical properties, denoted as absorption and scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Qin Li , Ruiwen Shu , Li Wang

A 3-D inverse medium problem in the frequency domain is considered. Another name for this problem is Coefficient Inverse Problem. The goal is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from scattering data. Potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Michael V. Klibanov , Hui Liu , Loc H. Nguyen

In this article, for the radiative transport equation, we study inverse problems of determining a time independent scattering coefficient or total attenuation by boundary data on the complementary sub-boundary after making one time input of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Manabu Machida , Masahiro Yamamoto

We consider an inverse problem for a radiative transport equation (RTE) in which boundary sources and measurements are restricted to a single subset $E$ of the boundary of the domain $\Omega$. We show that this problem can be solved…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Francis J. Chung

A novel method for solving the linear radiative transport equation (RTE) in a three-dimensional homogeneous medium is proposed and illustrated with numerical examples. The method can be used with an arbitrary phase function A(s,s') with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 George Panasyuk , John C. Schotland , Vadim A. Markel

We investigate the asymptotic relation between the inverse problems relying on the Helmholtz equation and the radiative transfer equation (RTE) as physical models, in the high-frequency limit. In particular, we evaluate the asymptotic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Shi Chen , Zhiyan Ding , Qin Li , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

It is shown that the contraction mapping principle with the involvement of a Carleman Weight Function works for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a 1D hyperbolic equation. Using a Carleman estimate, the global convergence of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Thuy T. Le , Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

A new numerical method to solve an inverse source problem for the Helmholtz equation in inhomogenous media is proposed. This method reduces the original inverse problem to a boundary value problem for a coupled system of elliptic PDEs, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Loc H. Nguyen , Qitong Li , Michael V. Klibanov

The goal of this paper is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from complex-valued scattered wave field by solving a 3D coefficient inverse problem for the Helmholtz equation at multi-frequencies. The data are generated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen , Hui Liu

We propose a new iterative scheme to compute the numerical solution to an over-determined boundary value problem for a general quasilinear elliptic PDE. The main idea is to repeatedly solve its linearization by using the quasi-reversibility…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Thuy T. Le , Loc H. Nguyen , Hung V. Tran

For the first time, a globally convergent numerical method is presented for ill-posed Cauchy problems for quasilinear PDEs. The key idea is to use Carleman Weight Functions to construct globally strictly convex Tikhonov-like cost…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-20 Michael V. Klibanov

Since the early 1970s, inversion techniques have become the most useful tool for inferring the magnetic, dynamic, and thermodynamic properties of the solar atmosphere. The intrinsic model dependence makes it necessary to formulate specific…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta , Basilio Ruiz Cobo

In this paper, a reconstruction method for the spatially distributed dielectric constant of a medium from the back scattering wave field in the frequency domain is considered. Our approach is to propose a globally convergent algorithm,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

In this work, we prove rigorous error estimates for a hybrid method introduced in [15] for solving the time-dependent radiation transport equation (RTE). The method relies on a splitting of the kinetic distribution function for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Andrés Galindo-Olarte , Victor P. DeCaria , Cory D. Hauck