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An inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation in a bounded domain is considered. The problem is to extract information about an unknown obstacle embedded in the domain with unknown impedance boundary condition (the Robin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-16 Masaru Ikehata

This paper investigates the inverse biharmonic scattering problems of identifying the shape and location of the obstacle with phased and phaseless measurement data. A direct imaging method based on reverse time migration is proposed for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Tielei Zhu , Zhihao Ge

Inverse problems use physical measurements along with a computational model to estimate the parameters or state of a system of interest. Errors in measurements and uncertainties in the computational model lead to inaccurate estimates. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-02 Vishwas Rao , Adrian Sandu

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

We consider the inverse problem of determining the possible presence of an inclusion in a thin plate by boundary measurements. The plate is made by non-homogeneous linearly elastic material belonging to a general class of anisotropy. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-16 Antonino Morassi , Edi Rosset , Sergio Vessella

The acoustic inverse obstacle scattering problem consists of determining the shape of a domain from measurements of the scattered far field due to some set of incident fields (probes). For a penetrable object with known sound speed, this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Carlos Borges , Manas Rachh , Leslie Greengard

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 consider an inverse boundary value problem for Maxwell's equations, which aims to recover the electromagnetic material properties of a body from measurements on the boundary. We show that a Lipschitz continuous conductivity, electric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-11 Monika Pichler

In this paper, we consider several geometric inverse problems for linear elliptic systems. We prove uniqueness and stability results. In particular, we show the way that the observation depends on the perturbations of the domain. In some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Raul K. C. Araújo , Enrique Fernández-Cara , Diego A. Souza

For an initial-boundary value problem for a parabolic equation in the spatial variable $x=(x_1,.., x_n)$ and time $t$, we consider an inverse problem of determining a coefficient which is independent of one spatial component $x_n$ by extra…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Oleg Yu. Imanuvilov , Yavar Kian , Masahiro Yamamoto

We prove under general assumptions that solutions of the thin obstacle or Signorini problem in any space dimension achieve the optimal regularity $C^{1,1/2}$. This improves the known optimal regularity results by allowing the thin obstacle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-06 Nestor Guillen

In this paper we consider an inverse problem of determining a minimal surface embedded in a Riemannian manifold. We show under a topological condition that if $\Sigma$ is a $2$-dimensional embedded minimal surface, then the knowledge of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Cătălin I. Cârstea , Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Leo Tzou

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for a nonlinear elastic wave equation which was studied in [de Hoop, Uhlmann, Wang. Math. Ann. (2019) doi:10.1007/s00208-018-01796-y]. We show that all the parameters appearing in the equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

We consider the inverse problem of determining a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary from fixed time observations of the solution, restricted to a small subset in space, for the Navier-Stokes system with a local source on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yavar Kian , Lauri Oksanen , Ziyao Zhao

We prove that a two-component mirror-symmetric analytic obstacle in the plane is determined by its resonance poles among such obstacles. The proof is essentially the same as in the interior case (part II of the series). A so-called…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2008-01-22 Steve Zelditch

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-16 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

We consider for the full time-dependent Maxwell's equations the inverse problem of identifying locations and certain properties of small electromagnetic inhomogeneities in a homogeneous background medium from dynamic boundary measurements…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-08 C. Daveau , A. Khelifi

The Signorini problem for the Laplace operator is considered in a general polygonal domain. It is proved that the coincidence set consists of a finite number of boundary parts plus isolated points. The regularity of the solution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Thomas Apel , Serge Nicaise

This paper is devoted to multi-dimensional inverse problems. In this setting, we address a goodness-of-fit testing problem. We investigate the separation rates associated to different kinds of smoothness assumptions and different degrees of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-20 Yuri I. Ingster , Béatrice Laurent , Clément Marteau

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