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An efficient semi-implicit second-order-accurate finite-difference method is described for studying incompressible Rayleigh-Benard convection in a box, with sidewalls that are periodic, thermally insulated, or thermally conducting.…
This paper introduces a novel matrix-free approach for full waveform inversion in anisotropic elastic media, incorporating density variation through the utilization of the distorted Born iterative method. This study aims to overcome the…
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We revisit the inverse problem of reconstructing a spatially varying diffusion coefficient in stationary elliptic equations from boundary Cauchy data. From a theoretical perspective, we introduce a gradient-weighted modification of the…
In this work, we construct the Born and inverse Born approximation and series to recover two function-valued coefficients in the Helmholtz equation for inverse scattering problems from the scattering data at two different frequencies. An…
We present a stochastic description of multiple scattering of polarized waves in the regime of forward scattering. In this regime, if the source is polarized, polarization survives along a few transport mean free paths, making it possible…
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The present paper generalizes preceding papers of the author and opens a cycle of works concerning the general posing and solution in analytic form of the quantum-mechanical inverse scattering problem (for a given partial channel) in a…
In this paper, we establish two sharp quantitative results for the direct and inverse time-harmonic acoustic wave scattering. The first one is concerned with the recovery of the support of an inhomogeneous medium, independent of its…
Inverse obstacle scattering is the recovery of an obstacle boundary from the scattering data produced by incident waves. This shape recovery can be done by iteratively solving a PDE-constrained optimization problem for the obstacle…
Scattering properties of a material are changed when the material is injected with small acoustically soft particles. It is shown that its new scattering behavior can be understood as a solution of a potential scattering problem with the…
Clusters of wave-scattering oscillators offer the ability to passively control wave energy in elastic continua. However, designing such clusters to achieve a desired wave energy pattern is a highly nontrivial task. While the forward…
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