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In this paper a wave is generated by an initial data whose support is localized at the outside of unknown obstacles and observed in a limited time on a known closed surface or the same position as the support of the initial data. The…

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This work investigates both direct and inverse problems of the variable-exponent sub-diffusion model, which attracts increasing attentions in both practical applications and theoretical aspects. Based on the perturbation method, which…

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Consider the scattering of time-harmonic point sources by an infinite locally rough interface with bounded obstacles embedded in the lower half-space. The model problem is first reduced to an equivalent integral equation formulation defined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Jiaqing Yang , Jianliang Li , Bo Zhang

This paper addresses the inverse obstacle scattering problem of simultaneously reconstructing the obstacle geometry and boundary conditions from multi-frequency near-field backscattering data. We first establish rigorous high-frequency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Jialei Li , Xiaodong Liu

It is proved that the scattering amplitude $A(\beta, \alpha_0, k_0)$, known for all $\beta\in S^2$, where $S^2$ is the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$, and fixed $\alpha_0\in S^2$ and $k_0>0$, determines uniquely the surface $S$ of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 A. G. Ramm

The Helmholtz equation is notoriously difficult to solve with standard numerical methods, increasingly so, in fact, at higher frequencies. Controllability methods instead transform the problem back to the time-domain, where they seek the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Marcus J. Grote , Frédéric Nataf , Jet Hoe Tang , Pierre-Henri Tournier

We consider the problem of reconstructing the shape of an impenetrable sound-soft obstacle from scattering measurements. The input data is assumed to be the far-field pattern generated when a plane wave impinges on an unknown obstacle from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Carlos Borges , Leslie Greengard

The class $\MIP^*$ of promise problems that can be decided through an interactive proof system with multiple entangled provers provides a complexity-theoretic framework for the exploration of the nonlocal properties of entanglement. Little…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-02 Matthew Coudron , Thomas Vidick

Diffraction tomography is a noninvasive technique that estimates the refractive indices of unknown objects and involves an inverse-scattering problem governed by the wave equation. Recent works have shown the benefit of nonlinear models of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Tao Hong , Thanh-an Pham , Eran Treister , Michael Unser

We consider a strongly damped wave equation on compact manifolds, both with and without boundaries, and formulate the corresponding inverse problems. For closed manifolds, we prove that the metric can be uniquely determined, up to an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Li Li , Yang Zhang

Inverse source localization from Helmholtz boundary data collected over a narrow aperture is highly ill-posed and severely undersampled, undermining classical solvers (e.g., the Direct Sampling Method). We present a modular framework that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Guanyu Pan , Jianing Zhou , Xiaotong Liu , Yunqing Huang , Nianyu Yi

We consider solving the exterior Dirichlet problem for the Helmholtz equation with the $h$-version of the boundary element method (BEM) using the standard second-kind combined-field integral equations. We prove a new, sharp bound on how the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Jeffrey Galkowski , Eike H. Müller , Euan A. Spence

In this paper we present a hybrid approach to numerically solve two-dimensional electromagnetic inverse scattering problems, whereby the unknown scatterer is hosted by a possibly inhomogeneous background. The approach is `hybrid' in that it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-22 G. Giorgi , M. Brignone , R. Aramini , M. Piana

A simple method for some class of inverse obstacle scattering problems is introduced. The observation data are given by a wave field measured on a known surface surrounding unknown obstacles over a finite time interval. The wave is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Masaru Ikehata

This article is concerned with the inverse problem on determining the temporal component of the source term in a coupled system of time-fractional diffusion equations by single point observation. Under a non-degeneracy condition on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Mohamed BenSalah , Yikan Liu

We introduce in this document a direct method allowing to solve numerically inverse type problems for linear parabolic equations. We consider the reconstruction of the full solution of the parabolic equation posed in $\Omega\times (0,T)$ -…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-11 Arnaud Munch , Diego Souza

In this paper we the formulation of inverse problems as constrained minimization problems and their iterative solution by gradient or Newton type. We carry out a convergence analysis in the sense of regularization methods and discuss…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Kha Van Huynh

The inverse source problem for the Helmholtz equation poses significant challenges, particularly when sources exhibit complex or discontinuous geometries. Traditional numerical methods suffer from prohibitive computational costs, while…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Xinwei Hu , Jingrun Chen , Haijun Yu

We discuss a time-harmonic inverse scattering problem for a nonlinear Helmholtz equation with compactly supported inhomogeneous scattering objects that are described by a nonlinear refractive index in unbounded free space. Assuming the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-14 Roland Griesmaier , Marvin Knöller , Rainer Mandel

Consider the inverse acoustic scattering of time-harmonic point sources by an unbounded locally rough interface with bounded obstacles embedded in the lower half-space. A novel version of reverse time migration is proposed to reconstruct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Jianliang Li , Jiaqing Yang