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This paper investigates the problem of time-harmonic acoustic scattering in an inhomogeneous medium with a complex topological structure. Specifically, the medium is anisotropic and contains several disjoint sound-soft obstacles. This model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Huaian Diao , Qingle Meng , Zhiying Sun

This paper gives a remark on the Enclosure Method by considering inverse obstacle scattering problems with a single incident wave whose governing equation is given by the Helmholtz equation in two dimensions. It is concerned with the…

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

This paper addresses the inverse scattering problem for Maxwell's equations. We first show that a bianisotropic scatterer can be uniquely determined from multi-static far-field data through the factorization analysis of the far-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Thu Le , Dinh-Liem Nguyen

This paper investigates the inverse random source problem for elastic waves in three dimensions, where the source is assumed to be driven by an additive white noise. A novel computational method is proposed for reconstructing the variance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Hao Gu , Tianjiao Wang , Xiang Xu , Yue Zhao

In this paper we consider the inverse acoustic scattering (in \mathbb{R}^3) or electromagnetic scattering (in \mathbb{R}^2, for the scalar TE-polarization case) problem of reconstructing possibly multiple defective penetrable regions in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-08 Fioralba Cakoni , Isaac Harris

This paper is concerned with the inverse acoustic scattering problems of reconstructing time-dependent multiple point sources and sources on a curve $L$ of the form $\lambda(t)\tau(x)\delta_L(x)$. A direct sampling method with a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Jiaru Wang , Bo Chen , Qingqing Yu , Yao Sun

We consider the inverse scattering problem associated with any number of interacting modes in one-dimensional structures. The coupling between the modes is contradirectional in addition to codirectional, and may be distributed continuously…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Ole Henrik Waagaard , Johannes Skaar

We consider the scattering of time-harmonic plane waves by a compactly supported inhomogeneous scattering obstacle governed by the Helmholtz equation. Given far field observations of the scattered fields corresponding to plane wave incident…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Roland Griesmaier , Bastian Harrach , Jianli Xiang

We analyze in this paper the performance of a newly developed globally convergent numerical method for a coefficient inverse problem for the case of multi-frequency experimental backscatter data associated to a single incident wave. These…

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In this tutorial paper, we consider the problem of electromagnetic scattering by a bounded two-dimensional dielectric object, and discuss certain interesting properties of the scattered field. Using the electric field integral equation,…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-08 Uday K. Khankhoje , Kushal Shah

In this paper, we study both the direct and inverse random source problems associated with the multi-term time-fractional diffusion-wave equation driven by a fractional Brownian motion. Regarding the direct problem, the well-posedness is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Xiaoli Feng , Qiang Yao , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

In this work, we propose an easy-to-implement fixed-point algorithm for reconstructing a space-time dependent source in a subdiffusion model from lateral boundary measurements. The numerical scheme combines a Galerkin finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Siyu Cen , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Zhi Zhou

This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves from an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is established, employing the integral equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-09 xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

Passive imaging involves recording waves generated by uncontrolled, random sources and utilizing correlations of such waves to image the medium through which they propagate. In this paper, we focus on passive inverse obstacle scattering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Thorsten Hohage , Meng Liu

This work considers the inverse dynamic source problem arising from the time-domain fluorescence diffuse optical tomography (FDOT). We recover the dynamic distributions of fluorophores in biological tissue by the one single boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Chunlong Sun , Mengmeng Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

In this paper, we consider the inverse scattering problem associated with an anisotropic medium with a conductive boundary. We will assume that the corresponding far-field pattern is known/measured and we consider two inverse problems.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Victor Hughes , Isaac Harris , Heejin Lee

A new near-to-far-field transformation algorithm for three-dimensional finite-different time-domain is presented in this article. This new approach is based directly on the polarization current of the scatterer, not the scattered near…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yong Zeng , Jerome V. Moloney

In many Direct and Inverse Scattering problems one has to use a parameter-fitting procedure, because analytical inversion procedures are often not available. In this paper a variety of such methods is presented with a discussion of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander G. Ramm , Semion Gutman

This paper focuses on the time-harmonic electromagnetic (EM) scattering problem in a general medium which may possess a nontrivial topological structure. We model this by an inhomogeneous and possibly anisotropic medium with embedded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Qingle Meng , Li Wang

Self-organizing systems demonstrate how simple local rules can generate complex stochastic patterns. Many natural systems rely on such dynamics, making self-organization central to understanding natural complexity. A fundamental challenge…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-12 Elias Najarro , Nicolas Bessone , Sebastian Risi