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This paper investigates the inverse random source problem for elastic waves in three dimensions, where the source is assumed to be driven by an additive white noise. A novel computational method is proposed for reconstructing the variance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Hao Gu , Tianjiao Wang , Xiang Xu , Yue Zhao

This paper is devoted to the algorithmic development of inverse elastic scattering problems. We focus on reconstructing the locations and shapes of elastic scatterers with known dictionary data for the nearly incompressible materials. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Li Jingzhi , Liu Hongyu , Sun Hongpeng

We consider the problem of elastic diffraction tomography, which consists in reconstructing elastic properties (i.e. mass density and elastic Lam\'e parameters) of a weakly scattering medium from full-field data of scattered waves outside…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Bochra Mejri , Otmar Scherzer

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

A periodically-uneven (in one horizontal direction) stress-free boundary covering a linear, isotropic, homogeneous, lossless solid half space is submitted to a vertically-propagating shear-horizontal plane, body wave. The rigorous theory of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-28 Armand Wirgin

In this work we consider the inverse elastic scattering problem by an inclusion in two dimensions. The elastic inclusion is placed in an isotropic homogeneous elastic medium. The inverse problem, using the third Betti's formula (direct…

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This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves from an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is established, employing the integral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang , Jiaqing Yang

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

We consider nonlinear elastic wave equations generalizing Gol'dberg's five constants model. We analyze the nonlinear interaction of two distorted plane waves and characterize the possible nonlinear responses. Using the boundary measurements…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Maarten de Hoop , Gunther Uhlmann , Yiran Wang

We present a semi-analytical approach to compute quasi-guided elastic wave modes in horizontally layered structures radiating into unbounded fluid or solid media. This problem is of relevance, e.g., for the simulation of guided ultrasound…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Hauke Gravenkamp , Bor Plestenjak , Daniel A. Kiefer , Elias Jarlebring

We experimentally study linear and nonlinear waves on the surface of a fluid covered by an elastic sheet where both tension and flexural waves take place. An optical method is used to obtain the full space-time wave field, and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-10 Luc Deike , Jean-Claude Bacri , Eric Falcon

Electromagnetic wave manipulation plays a crucial role in advancing technology across various domains, including photonic device design. This study presents an inverse design approach for a periodic medium that optimizes electromagnetic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Ziling Chen , Fadil Santosa

This paper concerns an inverse elastic scattering problem which is to determine the location and the shape of a rigid obstacle from the phased or phaseless far-field data for a single incident plane wave. By introducing the Helmholtz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

Love waves are dispersive interfacial waves that are a mode of response for anti-plane motions of an elastic layer bonded to an elastic half-space. Similarly, Stoneley waves are interfacial waves in bonded contact of dissimilar elastic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-11 K. Ranjith

A theory for multiple scattering of elastic waves is presented in a random medium bounded by two ideal free surfaces, whose horizontal size is infinite and whose transverse size is smaller than the mean free path of the waves. This geometry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicolas P. Tregoures , Bart A. van Tiggelen

We consider the scattering of elastic waves by highly oscillating anisotropic periodic media with bounded support. Applying the two-scale homogenization, we first obtain a constant coefficient second-order partial differential elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Yi-Hsuan Lin , Shixu Meng

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

Two questions related to elastic motions are raised and addressed. First: in which theoretical framework can the equations of motion be written for an elastic half-space put into uniform rotation? It is seen that nonlinear finite elasticity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-04 Michel Destrade , Giuseppe Saccomandi

This is a continuation of our study [Uhlmann-Zhai, JMPA, 2021] on an inverse boundary value problem for a nonlinear elastic wave equation. We prove that all the linear and nonlinear coefficients can be recovered from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai