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We propose and study several inverse problems associated with the nonlinear progressive waves that arise in infrasonic inversions. The nonlinear progressive equation (NPE) is of a quasilinear form $\partial_t^2 u=\Delta f(x, u)$ with $f(x,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Yan Jiang , Hongyu Liu , Tianhao Ni , Kai Zhang

In the present paper we consider a general family of two dimensional wave equations which represents a great variety of linear and nonlinear equations within the framework of the transformations of equivalence groups. We have investigated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Saadet S. Özer

In this paper, we propose a new spectral decomposition method to simulate waves propagating in complicated waveguides. For the numerical solutions of waveguide scattering problems, an important task is to approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Ruming Zhang

In this paper, we consider the inverse boundary problems of recovering the time-dependent nonlinearity and damping term for a semilinear wave equation on a Riemannian manifold. The Carleman estimate and the construction of Gaussian beams…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Song-Ren Fu

In various biomedical applications, precise focusing of nonlinear ultrasonic waves is crucial for efficiency and safety of the involved procedures. This work analyzes a class of shape optimization problems constrained by general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Mostafa Meliani , Vanja Nikolić

We consider the inverse problem of recovering an isotropic quasilinear conductivity from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map when the conductivity depends on the solution and its gradient. We show that the conductivity can be recovered on an open…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Ravi Shankar

We study the inverse problem for a semilinear wave equation on metric tree graphs. From the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map defined at all but one of the boundary vertices, we recover unknown connectivity of the graph, lengths of the edges, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Sergei Avdonin , Matti Lassas , Jinpeng Lu , Medet Nursultanov , Lauri Oksanen

We consider the inverse problem of determining a general semilinear term appearing in nonlinear parabolic equations. For this purpose, we derive a new criterion that allows to prove global recovery of some general class of semilinear terms…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Yavar Kian , Gunther Uhlmann

Frequency-domain nonlinear wave mixing processes may be described either using response functions whereby the signal is generated after all interactions with the incoming fields, or in terms of scattering amplitudes where all fields are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shaul Mukamel

This paper analyzes the nonlinear correspondence between the reflectivity profile (model) and the plane wave impulse response at the boundary (data) for a three-dimensional half space consisting of a sequence of homogeneous horizontal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 Peter C. Gibson

A method for solving a quasilinear nonelliptical equation of the second order is developed and we give classification and parametrization of simple elements of the equation.We find exact solutions of an equation for potential stationary…

General Physics · Physics 2016-12-01 M. W. Kalinowski

We study the inverse problem of determining uniquely and stably quasilinear terms appearing in an elliptic equation from boundary excitations and measurements associated with the solutions of the corresponding equation. More precisely, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Yavar Kian

The point symmetry group is studied for the generalized Webster-type equation describing non-linear acoustic waves in lossy channels with variable cross sections. It is shown that, for certain types of cross section profiles, the admitted…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Vladimir F. Kovalev , Oleg V. Rudenko

Acoustic wave propagation in a one-dimensional waveguide connected with Helmholtz resonators is studied numerically. Finite amplitude waves and viscous boundary layers are considered. The model consists of two coupled evolution equations: a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Bruno Lombard , Jean-François Mercier

In this work, we investigate the inverse problem of determining a quasilinear term appearing in a nonlinear elliptic equation from the measurement of the conormal derivative on the boundary. This problem arises in several practical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Jason Choy , Maolin Deng , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian

We prove that the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, measured on a part of the boundary of a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n, n\geq2$, can uniquely determine, in a nonlinear magnetic Schr\"odinger equation, the vector-valued…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Ru-Yu Lai , Ting Zhou

We introduce a non-overlapping variant of the Schwarz waveform relaxation algorithm for semilinear wave propagation in one dimension. Using the theory of absorbing boundary conditions, we derive a new nonlinear algorithm. We show that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Laurence Halpern , Jérémie Szeftel

Nonlinear acoustic evolution is often discussed in the context of wave-steepening that leads to shock formation, and is of special interest in applications where the shock continues to strengthen due to a narrowing of its channel or the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-27 Tamar Faran , Christopher D. Matzner , Eliot Quataert

We extend the study of inverse boundary value problems to the setting of fully nonlinear PDEs by considering an inverse source problem for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation \[ \det D^2 u = F. \] We prove that, on a convex Euclidean domain in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Tony Liimatainen , Yi-Hsuan Lin