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Consider an exterior problem of the three-dimensional elastic wave equation, which models the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a rigid obstacle. The scattering problem is reformulated into a boundary value problem by introducing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

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

We consider the scattering of a low-frequency gravitational wave by a massive compact body in vacuum. We apply partial-wave methods to compute amplitudes for the helicity-conserving and helicity-reversing contributions to the cross section,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sam R. Dolan

In this paper, we address the existence of global solutions to the Cauchy problem of the modified Camassa-Holm (mCH) equation, which is known as a model for the unidirectional propagation of shallow water waves. Based on the spectral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Yiling Yang , Engui Fan , Yue Liu

A spherical gravitational wave antenna is distinct from other types of gravitational wave antennas in that only a single detector is necessary to determine the direction and polarization of a gravitational wave. Zhou and Michelson showed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Stephen M. Merkowitz

A century and a half ago, J. Boussinesq derived an equation for the propagation of water waves in a channel. Despite the fundamental importance of this equation for a number of physical phenomena, mathematical results on it remain scarce.…

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This paper is concerned with a numerical method for a 3D coefficient inverse problem with phaseless scattering data. These are multi-frequency data generated by a single direction of the incident plane wave. Our numerical procedure consists…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen

Applying the inverse scattering transform to study a focusing two-component Hirota equation with nonzero boundary conditions at infinity. Through the spectral problem and the adjoint spectral problem, the analyticity properties and symmetry…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-02-25 Feng Zhang , Pengfei Han , Yi Zhang

We consider an inverse problem for the elastic wave of simultaneously reconstructing the impedance and the geometric information of the bounded body that is occupied by a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium from the measured Cauchy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Yao Sun , Yan Chang , Yukun Guo

In this article, the inverse scattering transform is considered for the Gerdjikov-Ivanov equation with zero and non-zero boundary conditions by a matrix Riemann-Hilbert (RH) method. The formula of the soliton solutions are established by…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-12-29 Zhang Zechuan , Fan Engui

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

In recent time, by working in a plane with the metric associated with wave equation (the Special Relativity non-definite quadratic form), a complete formalization of space-time trigonometry and a Cauchy-like integral formula have been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 F. Catoni , P. Zampetti

In certain models of conformal gravity, the propagation of gravitational waves is governed by a fourth order scalar partial differential equation. We study the initial value problem for a generalization of this equation, and derive a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Sanjeev S. Seahra

Seismic data are commonly modeled by a high-frequency single scattering approximation. This amounts to a linearization in the medium coefficient about a smooth background. The discontinuities are contained in the medium perturbation. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Christiaan C. Stolk , Maarten V. de Hoop

In the s-wave approximation the 4D Einstein gravity with scalar fields can be reduced to an effective 2D dilaton gravity coupled nonminimally to the matter fields. We study the leading order (tree level) vertices. The 4-particle matrix…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Fischer , D. Grumiller , W. Kummer , D. V. Vassilevich

In this paper we demonstrate a computational method to solve the inverse scattering problem for a star-shaped, smooth, penetrable obstacle in 2D. Our method is based on classical ideas from computational geometry. First, we approximate the…

We investigate inverse scattering problems for Dirac equations that arise as continuum models of waveguide arrays. We first establish the well-posedness of the forward models. For the associated inverse problems, we develop the inverse Born…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 John C. Schotland , Shenwen Yu

A 3-D inverse medium problem in the frequency domain is considered. Another name for this problem is Coefficient Inverse Problem. The goal is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from scattering data. Potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Michael V. Klibanov , Hui Liu , Loc H. Nguyen

Inverse scattering and spectral one-dimensional problems are discussed systematically in a self-contained way. Many novel results, due to the author are presented. The classical results are often presented in a new way. Several highlights…

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