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Interpreting scattered acoustic and electromagnetic wave patterns is a computational task that enables remote imaging in a number of important applications, including medical imaging, geophysical exploration, sonar and radar detection, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Owen Melia , Olivia Tsang , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Yuehaw Khoo , Jeremy Hoskins , Rebecca Willett

This paper concerns a fast, one-step iterative technique of imaging extended perfectly conducting cracks with Dirichlet boundary condition. In order to reconstruct the shape of cracks from scattered field data measured at the boundary, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 Won-Kwang Park

The recovery of anomalies from backscattering far field data is a long-standing open problem in inverse scattering theory. We make a first step in this direction by establishing the unique identifiability of convex impenetrable obstacles…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Jialei Li , Xiaodong Liu , Qingxiang Shi

We study the uniqueness and accuracy of the numerical solution of the problem of reconstruction of the shape and trajectory of a reflecting obstacle moving in an inhomogeneous medium from travel times, start and end points, and initial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Kamen M. Lozev

In this paper, we give a positive answer to a longstanding open problem for determining the shape of an obstacle from the knowledge of the far field pattern for the scattering of time-harmonic elastic wave. We show that the elastic far…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Genqian Liu

This paper is concerned with uniqueness in inverse electromagnetic scattering with phaseless far-field pattern at a fixed frequency. In our previous work [{\em SIAM J. Appl. Math.} {\bf 78} (2018), 3024-3039], by adding a known reference…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Xiaoxu Xu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

In this paper, we investigate on the direct and inverse scattering problem by an unbounded penetrable rough surface in a lossless medium. The cases that the transmission coefficient $\mu\neq1$ and $\mu=1$, which creates certain difficulties…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Chengyu Wu , Jiaqinq Yang

This work is concerned with a direct sampling method (DSM) for inverse acoustic scattering problems using far-field data. The method characterizes some unknown obstacles, inhomogeneous media or cracks, directly through an indicator function…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 Jingzhi Li , Jun Zou

Variational phase-field methods have been shown powerful for the modeling of complex crack propagation without a priori knowledge of the crack path or ad hoc criteria. However, phase-field models suffer from their energy functional being…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-09-15 O. Lampron , D. Therriault , M. Lévesque

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm , S. Gutman

We develop a novel wave imaging scheme for reconstructing the shape of an inhomogeneous scatterer and we consider the inverse acoustic obstacle scattering problem as a prototype model for our study. There exists a wealth of reconstruction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Hongyu Liu , Xiaodong Liu , Xianchao Wang , Yuliang Wang

It is proved that a connected polygonal obstacle coated by thin layers together with its surface impedance function can be determined uniquely from the far field pattern of a single incident plane wave. Our proof is based on the Schwarz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Guang-Hui Hu , Manmohan Vashisth

This paper considers 3-D elastic scattering problems by penetrable obstacles with embedded objects. The well-posedness of transmission problem is proved by employing integral equation method. Then the Inverse Problems , which is to recover…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Chun Liu , Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang

In this paper, we consider the obstacle scattering problem for biharmonic equations with a Dirichlet boundary condition in both two and three dimensions. Some basic properties are first derived for the biharmonic scattering solutions, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Chengyu Wu , Jiaqing Yang

For problems of time-harmonic scattering by polygonal obstacles, embedding formulae provide a useful means of computing the far-field coefficient induced by any incident plane wave, given the far-field coefficient of a relatively small set…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Andrew Gibbs , Stephen Langdon , Andrea Moiola

In this short note, we present a probabilistic perspective on the Schiffer's problem in the inverse scattering theory, which asks whether one can uniquely determine the shape of an unknown obstacle by a single far-field measurement. It is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Hongyu Liu

Scattering by a short-range potential with time-periodic interaction strength is investigated with a Floquet-scattering theory. Sharp resonances occur, at which the s-wave scattering length can be tuned to large positive and negative…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-26 Christoph Dauer , Axel Pelster , Sebastian Eggert

We study the inverse scattering problem of determining a magnetic field and electric potential from scattering measurements corresponding to finitely many plane waves. The main result shows that the coefficients are uniquely determined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Cristóbal J. Meroño , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Mikko Salo

We consider the inverse acoustic obstacle problem for sound-soft star-shaped obstacles in two dimensions wherein the boundary of the obstacle is determined from measurements of the scattered field at a collection of receivers outside the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Mo Zhou , Jiequn Han , Manas Rachh , Carlos Borges

This paper is concerned with inverse scattering problems of determining the support of an isotropic and homogeneous penetrable body from knowledge of multi-static far-field patterns in acoustics and in linear elasticity. The normal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Chun Liu , Guanghui Hu , Jianli Xiang , Jiayi Zhang