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Seismic waves are the most sensitive probe of the Earth's interior we have. With the dense data sets available in exploration, images of subsurface structures can be obtained through processes such as migration. Unfortunately, relating…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-05-05 R. B. Schlottmann

This paper investigates the problem of time-harmonic acoustic scattering in an inhomogeneous medium with a complex topological structure. Specifically, the medium is anisotropic and contains several disjoint sound-soft obstacles. This model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Huaian Diao , Qingle Meng , Zhiying Sun

In this paper, we develop and numerically implement a novel approach for solving the inverse source problem of the acoustic wave equation in three dimensions. By injecting a small high-contrast droplet into the medium, we exploit the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Shutong Hou , Mourad Sini , Haibing Wang

This paper proposes a direct sampling method for the inverse problem of magnetic induction tomography (MIT). Our approach defines a class of point spread functions with explicit expressions, which are computed via inner products, leading to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Junqing Chen , Chengzhe Jiang

In this paper we demonstrate a computational method to solve the inverse scattering problem for a star-shaped, smooth, penetrable obstacle in 2D. Our method is based on classical ideas from computational geometry. First, we approximate the…

This work is concerned with the inverse source problem of locating multiple multipolar sources from boundary measurements for the Helmholtz equation. We develop simple and effective sampling schemes for location acquisition of the sources…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-18 Deyue Zhang , Yukun Guo , Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu

We present preliminary results on a novel numerical method describing wave propagation in non-uniform media. Following Huygens-Fresnel' principle, we model the wavefront as an array of point sources that emit wavelets, which interfere. We…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 F. A. Volpe , P. -D. Letourneau , A. Zhao

We propose a new reverse time migration method for reconstructing extended obstacles in the planar waveguide using acoustic waves at a fixed frequency. We prove the resolution of the reconstruction method in terms of the aperture and the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Zhiming Chen , Guanghui Huang

We study the recovery of a spatially dependent source in a one-dimensional space-time fractional wave equation using boundary measurement data collected at a single endpoint. The main challenge arises from the fact that the eigenfunctions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Kuang Huang , Zhiyuan Li , Zhidong Zhang , Zhi Zhou

In this work, we contribute to the broader understanding of inverse problems by introducing a versatile multiscale modeling framework tailored to the challenges of sediment concentration estimation. Specifically, we propose a novel approach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Jiwei Li , Lingyun Qiu , Zhongjing Wang , Hui Yu , Siqin Zheng

The numerical approximation of an inverse problem subject to the convection--diffusion equation when diffusion dominates is studied. We derive Carleman estimates that are on a form suitable for use in numerical analysis and with explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Erik Burman , Mihai Nechita , Lauri Oksanen

The tilted-wave interferometer is a promising technique for the development of a reference measurement system for the highly accurate form measurement of aspheres and freeform surfaces. The technique combines interferometric measurements,…

This work develops an efficient real-time inverse formulation for inferring the aerodynamic surface pressures on a hypersonic vehicle from sparse measurements of the structural strain. The approach aims to provide real-time estimates of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Julie Pham , Omar Ghattas , Noel Clemens , Karen Willcox

Direct imaging methods recover the presence, position, and shape of the unknown obstacles in time-harmonic inverse scattering without a priori knowledge of either the physical properties or the number of disconnected components of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-29 General Ozochiawaeze

Two main aims of this paper are to develop a numerical method to solve an inverse source problem for parabolic equations and apply it to solve a nonlinear coefficient inverse problem. The inverse source problem in this paper is the problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Phuong Mai Nguyen , Loc Hoang Nguyen

In this paper, we consider the direct and inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic waves by an unbounded rough interface with a buried impenetrable obstacle. We first study the well-posedness of the direct problem with a local source…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Yulong Lu , Bo Zhang

An inverse scattering problem for the 3D acoustic equation in time domain is considered. The unknown spatially distributed speed of sound is the subject of the solution of this problem. A single location of the point source is used. Using a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Wenlong Zhang

Least-squares reverse time migration is well-known for its capability to generate artifact-free true-amplitude subsurface images through fitting observed data in the least-squares sense. However, when applied to realistic imaging problems,…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Mengmeng Yang , Zhilong Fang , Philipp Witte , Felix J. Herrmann

Light-matter interactions inside turbid medium can be controlled by tailoring the spatial distribution of energy density throughout the system. Wavefront shaping allows selective coupling of incident light to different transmission…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-06 M. Koirala , R. Sarma , H. Cao , A. Yamilov

This paper concerns the reconstruction of the scattering coefficient in a two-dimensional transport equation from angularly averaged measurements when the probing source is isotropic and time-harmonic. This is a practical setting in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Guillaume Bal , Francois Monard