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We interpret the forward Maxwell equation with up to third order induced polarizations and get so called nonlinear wave equation in frequency domain (NWEF), which is based on Maxwell wave equation and using slowly varying spectral amplitude…

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In this paper we study nonlinear Helmholtz equations with sign-changing diffusion coefficients on bounded domains. The existence of an orthonormal basis of eigenfunctions is established making use of weak T-coercivity theory. All…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Rainer Mandel , Zoïs Moitier , Barbara Verfürth

We are concerned with an inverse problem associated with the fractional Helmholtz system that arises from the study of viscoacoustics in geophysics and thermoviscous modelling of lossy media. We are particularly interested in the case that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Xinlin Cao , Hongyu Liu

We consider the convected Helmholtz equation modeling linear acoustic propagation at a fixed frequency in a subsonic flow around a scattering object. The flow is supposed to be uniform in the exterior domain far from the object, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-16 Fabien Casenave , Alexandre Ern , Guillaume Sylvand

We present a recursive algorithm for multi-coefficient inversion in nonlinear Helmholtz equations with polynomial-type nonlinearities, utilizing the linearized Dirichlet-to-Neumann map as measurement data. To achieve effective recursive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Shuai Lu , Boxi Xu

This paper addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering multiple unknown parameters for semilinear wave equations from boundary measurements. We consider an initial-boundary value problem for a wave equation with a general…

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We present an explicit finite difference time domain method to solve the lossless Westervelt equation for a moving wave emitting boundary in one dimension and in spherical symmetry. The approach is based on a coordinate transformation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-22 Sören Schenke , Fabian Sewerin , Berend van Wachem , Fabian Denner

Westervelt's equation is a nonlinear wave equation that is widely used to model the propagation of sound waves in a compressible medium, with one important application being ultra-sound in human tissue. Two fundamental aspects of this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Stephen C. Anco , Almudena P. Marquez , Tamara M. Garrido , Maria L. Gandarias

We study an inverse boundary value problem for the nonlinear wave equation in $2 + 1$ dimensions. The objective is to recover an unknown potential $q(x, t)$ from the associated Dirichlet-to-Neumann map using real-valued waves. We propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Markus Harju , Suvi Anttila , Teemu Tyni

The document covers the fundamental algorithm of backward propagation from the point of view of reconstructing the wavefield captured by a "screen" in an imaging system. Owing to a property of the Helmholtz equation, wavefields have an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Anurag Pallaprolu

In this paper we prove uniqueness and stability of reconstruction of two coefficients (sound speed and nonlinearity parameter) in the Jordan-Moore-Gibson-Thompson JMGT equation of nonlinear acoustics, relying on observations resulting from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Barbara Kaltenbacher

Solving the wave equation is one of the most (if not the most) fundamental problems we face as we try to illuminate the Earth using recorded seismic data. The Helmholtz equation provides wavefield solutions that are dimensionally reduced,…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tariq Alkhalifah , Chao Song , Umair bin Waheed , Qi Hao

We present a Newton-like method to solve inverse problems and to quantify parameter uncertainties. We apply the method to parameter reconstruction in optical scatterometry, where we take into account a priori information and measurement…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 M. Hammerschmidt , M. Weiser , X. Garcia Santiago , L. Zschiedrich , B. Bodermann , S. Burger

We consider the following inverse problem: Suppose a $(1+1)$-dimensional wave equation on $\mathbb{R}_+$ with zero initial conditions is excited with a Neumann boundary data modelled as a white noise process. Given also the Dirichlet data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Emilia L. K. Blåsten , Tapio Helin , Antti Kujanpää , Lauri Oksanen , Jesse Railo

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

We present a novel approach for the inverse problem in electrical impedance tomography based on regularized quadratic regression. Our contribution introduces a new formulation for the forward model in the form of a nonlinear integral…

Geophysics · Physics 2012-05-29 Nick Polydorides , Alireza Aghasi , Eric L. Miller

We study the inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map at selected frequencies as the data. A conditional Lipschitz stability estimate for the inverse problem holds in the case of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Elena Beretta , Maarten V. de Hoop , Florian Faucher , Otmar Scherzer

We consider the problem of reconstructing the position and the time-dependent optical properties of a linear dispersive medium from OCT measurements. The medium is multi-layered described by a piece-wise inhomogeneous refractive index. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Peter Elbau , Leonidas Mindrinos , Leopold Veselka

We consider the inverse problem of determining different type of information about a diffusion process, described by ordinary or fractional diffusion equations stated on a bounded domain, like the density of the medium or the velocity field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Yavar Kian , Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

We study inverse problems consisting on determining medium properties using the responses to probing waves from the machine learning point of view. Based on the understanding of propagation of waves and their nonlinear interactions, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Gunther Uhlmann , Yiran Wang