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We consider an inverse scattering problem and its near-field approximation at high frequencies. We first prove, for both problems, Lipschitz stability results for determining the low-frequency component of the potential. Then we show that,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-31 Habib Ammari , Hajer Bahouri , David Dos Santos Ferreira , Isabelle Gallagher

We describe inverse scattering for the matrix Schroedinger operator with general selfadjoint boundary conditions at the origin using the Marchenko equation. Our approach allows the recovery of the potential as well as the boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Harmer

Wave propagation and acoustic scattering problems require vast computational resources to be solved accurately at high frequencies. Asymptotic methods can make this cost potentially frequency independent by explicitly extracting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Daan Huybrechs , Peter Opsomer

We revisit the problem of identifying an unknown portion of a boundary subject to a Robin condition based on a pair of Cauchy data on the accessible part of the boundary. It is known that a single measurement may correspond to infinitely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Mustapha Essahraoui , El Mehdi Cherrat , Lekbir Afraites , Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago

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

This work is concerned with numerically recovering multiple parameters simultaneously in the subdiffusion model from one single lateral measurement on a part of the boundary, while in an incompletely known medium. We prove that the boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Siyu Cen , Bangti Jin , Yikan Liu , Zhi Zhou

This paper concerns the inverse scattering problem to reconstruct a locally perturbed periodic surface. Different from scattering problems with quasi-periodic incident fields and periodic surfaces, the scattered fields are no longer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Xiaoli Liu , Ruming Zhang

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

We consider inverse potential scattering problems where the source of the incident waves is located on a smooth closed surface outside of the inhomogeneity of the media. The scattered waves are measured on the same surface at a fixed value…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Evgeny Lakshtanov , Boris Vainberg

This paper is concerned with the unique identification of the shape of a scatterer through a single far-field pattern in an inverse elastic medium scattering problem with a generalized transmission boundary condition. The uniqueness issue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Huaian Diao , Ruixiang Tang , Hongyu Liu , Jiexin Tang

This paper introduces a multi-frequency factorization method for imaging a time-dependent source, specifically to recover its spatial support and the associated excitation instants. Using far-field data from two opposite directions, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Guanqiu Ma , Hongxia Guo , Guanghui Hu

Consider the geometric inverse problem: There is a set of delta-sources in spacetime that emit waves travelling at unit speed. If we know all the arrival times at the boundary cylinder of the spacetime, can we reconstruct the space, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Maarten V. de Hoop , Joonas Ilmavirta , Matti Lassas , Teemu Saksala

The boundary integral method is an efficient approach for solving time-harmonic acoustic obstacle scattering problems. The main computational task is the evaluation of an oscillatory boundary integral at each discretization point of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-17 Lexing Ying

We study a question arising in inverse scattering theory: given a penetrable obstacle, does there exist an incident wave that does not scatter? We show that every penetrable obstacle with real-analytic boundary admits such an incident wave.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Mikko Salo , Henrik Shahgholian

This paper is concerned with the study of inverse transmission problems for magnetic Schr\"odinger operators on bounded domains and in all of the Euclidean space, in the self-adjoint case. Assuming that the magnetic and electric potentials…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-20 Katsiaryna Krupchyk

Inverse scattering is the process of estimating the spatial distribution of the scattering potential of an object by measuring the scattered wavefields around it. In this paper, we consider reflection tomography of high contrast objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Ajinkya Kadu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

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

In this paper, we consider the direct and inverse problem for isotropic scatterers with two conductive boundary conditions. First, we show the uniqueness for recovering the coefficients from the known far-field data at a fixed incident…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Rafael Ceja Ayala , Isaac Harris , Andreas Kleefeld

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 paper, we investigate the recovery of the absorption coefficient from boundary data assuming that the region of interest is illuminated at an initial time. We consider a sufficiently strong and isotropic, but otherwise unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-30 Sebastian Acosta