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We consider an inverse problem in elastodynamics arising in seismic imaging. We prove locally uniqueness of the density of a non-homogeneous, isotropic elastic body from measurements taken on a part of the boundary. We measure the Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Sombuddha Bhattacharyya

We deal with the inverse scattering problem of determining the surface impedance of a partially coated obstacle. We prove a stability estimate of logarithmic type for the impedance term by the far field measurements.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eva Sincich

This paper is concerned with analysis of electromagnetic wave scattering by an obstacle which is embedded in a two-layered lossy medium separated by an unbounded rough surface. Given a dipole point source, the direct problem is to determine…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Peijun Li , Jue Wang , Lei Zhang

In the assumption of hexagonal symmetry of an elastic material the axially symmetric displacement problem in a bounded axially symmetric solid with a Lyapunov boundary is reduced to a system of regular (Fredholm) integral equations.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Yu. A. Bogan

We study boundary determination for an inverse problem associated to the time-harmonic Maxwell equations and another associated to the isotropic elasticity system. We identify the electromagnetic parameters and the Lam\'e moduli for these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Pedro Caro , Ru-Yu Lai , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Ting Zhou

We establish sharp stability estimates of logarithmic type in determining an impedance obstacle in $\mathbb{R}^2$. The obstacle is of general polygonal shape and the impedance parameter can be variable. We establish the stability results by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Longyue Tao

Inverse problems in statistical physics are motivated by the challenges of `big data' in different fields, in particular high-throughput experiments in biology. In inverse problems, the usual procedure of statistical physics needs to be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-07 H. Chau Nguyen , Riccardo Zecchina , Johannes Berg

We determine the twist in a birefringent optical fiber from measurements, at one end of the fiber, of the fiber response to an impulsive source at the same end. This is the inverse problem of determining a non-constant coefficient, of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Rakesh , Jiahua Tang , Andrew A Lacey

We study some properties of the coincidence set for the boundary Signorini problem, improving some results from previous works by the second author and collaborators. Among other new results, we show here that the convexity assumption on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Miguel de Benito Delgado , Jesús Ildefonso Díaz

It is proved that if the scattering amplitudes at a fixed wavenumber for two obstacles from a certain large class of obstacles differ a little, than the obstacles differ a little. Error estimate is given. It is proved that there is an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm

We study the inverse source problem for a class of viscoelastic systems from a single boundary measurement in a general spatial dimension. We give specific reconstruction formula and stability estimate for the source in terms of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Walton Green , Shitao Liu

This paper focuses on an inverse problem associated with the plate equation which is derived from models in fluid mechanics and elasticity. We establish the unique identifying results in simultaneously determining both the unknown density…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Yixian Gao , Hongyu Liu , Yang Liu

We first formulate an inverse problem for a linear fractional Lam\'e system. We determine the Lam\'e parameters from exterior partial measurements of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. We further study an inverse obstacle problem as well as an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Li Li

We study Maxwell's equations in time domain in an anisotropic medium. The goal of the paper is to solve an inverse boundary value problem for anisotropies characterized by scalar impedance $\alpha$. This means that the material is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Erkki Somersalo

This paper considers the inverse problem of identifying the source term of parabolic equations from sparse boundary measurements. We used data from moving sensors to locate the unknown source term. This work first proves the uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Qiling Gu , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

We describe the general setting for the optical Aharonov-Bohm effect based on the inverse problem of the identification of the coefficients of the governing hyperbolic equation by the boundary measurements. We interpret the inverse problem…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-06 Gregory Eskin

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 study the inverse problems for the second order hyperbolic equations of general form with time-dependent coefficients assuming that the boundary data are given on a part of the boundary. The main result of this paper is the determination…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Gregory Eskin

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

Variational inequalities with thin obstacles and Signorini-type boundary conditions are classical problems in the calculus of variations, arising in numerous applications. In the linear case many refined results are known, while in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Luca Di Fazio , Emanuele Spadaro