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Consider an exterior problem of the three-dimensional elastic wave equation, which models the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a rigid obstacle. The scattering problem is reformulated into a boundary value problem by introducing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

In this paper, we investigate the direct and linear inverse problems of identifying time-dependent and time-independent source terms in a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation, using measured data at an interior point of the time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Rahmonov Askar Ahmadovich

We study an inverse source problem for the acoustic wave equation in a random waveguide. The goal is to estimate the source of waves from measurements of the acoustic pressure at a remote array of sensors. The waveguide effect is due to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Sebastian Acosta , Ricardo Alonso , Liliana Borcea

This paper concerns the inverse random source problem of the stochastic Maxwell equations driven by white noise in an inhomogeneous background medium. The well-posedness is established for the direct source problem, and the estimates and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Tianjiao Wang , Xiang Xu , Yue Zhao

This paper develops a discrete data-driven approach for solving the inverse source problem of the wave equation with final time measurements. Focusing on the $L^2$-Tikhonov regularization method, we analyze its convergence under two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Qiling Gu , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

The inverse scattering problem from the multi-frequency backscattering data is a long-standing open problem. We advance the theory by proving a local uniqueness result. Moreover, we introduce a direct sampling method for quantitatively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Yukun Guo , Xiaodong Liu

In this paper, we consider the inverse source problem for the time-fractional diffusion equation, which has been known to be an ill-posed problem. To deal with the ill-posedness of the problem, we propose to transform the problem into a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-27 Bin Fan , Chuanju Xu

Inverse source problems are central to many applications in acoustics, geophysics, non-destructive testing, and more. Traditional imaging methods suffer from the resolution limit, preventing distinction of sources separated by less than the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Adar Kahana , Symeon Papadimitropoulos , Eli Turkel , Dmitry Batenkov

In this paper we discuss inverse medium problems. We develop the direct sampling method based on probing indices using the saddle point formulation. The medium is constructed by solutions of saddle point problems. The method improves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Kazufumi Ito

We consider an inverse problem for an inhomogeneous wave equation with discrete-in-time sources, modeling a seismic rupture. We assume that the sources occur along a path with subsonic velocity, and that data are collected over time on some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Maarten V. de Hoop , Lauri Oksanen , Justin Tittelfitz

In this paper, direct and inverse problems for a space fractional advection dispersion equation on a finite domain are studied. The inverse problem consists in determining the source term from a final observation. We first drive the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Abeer Aldoghaither , Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati , Da-Yan Liu

Source extension is a reformulation of inverse problems in wave propagation, that at least in some cases leads to computationally tractable iterative solution methods. The core subproblem in all source extension methods is the solution of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-01 William W. Symes

We consider the multi-frequency inverse source problem in the presence of a non-homogeneous medium using passive measurements. Precisely, we derive stability estimates for determining the source from the knowledge of only the imaginary part…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Faouzi Triki , Kristoffer Linder-Steinlein , Mirza Karamehmedovic

We study the direct and an inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation arising in optical molecular imaging. We show that for generic absorption and scattering coefficients, the direct problem is well-posed and the inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-03-31 Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann

This paper analyzes inverse scattering for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in the case where the wave speed is piecewise constant. Scattering data recorded for an arbitrarily small interval of frequencies is shown to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sophia Bugarija , Peter C. Gibson , Guanghui Hu , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

The inverse acoustic scattering problems using multi-frequency backscattering far field patterns at isolated directions are studied. The underlying object could be point like scatterers, small scatterers, extended inhomogeneities and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu

Study of a simple single-trace transmission example shows how an extended source formulation of full-waveform inversion can produce an optimization problem without spurious local minima ("cycle skipping"), hence efficiently solvable via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 William W. Symes , Huiyi Chen , Susan E. Minkoff

This paper investigates inverse source problems for time-dependent electromagnetic waves governed by Maxwell's equations. After applying the Fourier transform with respect to time, the problem leads to a frequency-domain electromagnetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Fenglin Sun , Hongxia Guo

This article is concerned with the inverse problem on determining the temporal component of the source term in a coupled system of time-fractional diffusion equations by single point observation. Under a non-degeneracy condition on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Mohamed BenSalah , Yikan Liu

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