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This paper concerns the reconstruction of a diffusion coefficient in an elliptic equation from knowledge of several power densities. The power density is the product of the diffusion coefficient with the square of the modulus of the…

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This article explores a variant of Kac's famous problem, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?", by addressing a geometric inverse problem in acoustics. Our objective is to reconstruct the shape of a cuboid room using acoustic signals measured…

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We study the uniqueness and accuracy of the numerical solution of the problem of reconstruction of the shape and trajectory of a reflecting obstacle moving in an inhomogeneous medium from travel times, start and end points, and initial…

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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…

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This paper is concerned with inverse acoustic scattering problem of inferring the position and shape of a sound-soft obstacle from phaseless far-field data. We propose the Bayesian approach to recover sound-soft disks, line cracks and…

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We consider an inverse scattering problem for time-harmonic acoustic or electromagnetic waves. The goal is to localize several small penetrable objects embedded inside an otherwise homogeneous background medium from observations of far…

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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…

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This paper is concerned with uniqueness in inverse acoustic scattering with phaseless far-field data at a fixed frequency. The main difficulty of this problem is the so-called translation invariance property of the modulus of the far-field…

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Inverse problem to determine simultaneously a general space- and time-dependent source and an initial state in a fractional diffusion equation from an {\it a posteriori} measurement of the normal derivative of the state on a portion of a…

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Consider the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous medium with complex refractive index. We show that an approximate factorization method can be applied to reconstruct the support of the complex…

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We consider a heat equation and a wave equation in a spatial interval over a time interval. This article deals with inverse problems of determining sizes of spatial intervals by extra boundary data of solutions of the governing equations.…

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We consider the Bayesian approach to the inverse problem of recovering the shape of an object from measurements of its scattered acoustic field. Working in the time-harmonic setting, we focus on a Helmholtz transmission problem and then…

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This paper is concerned with the reconstruction of the shape of an acoustic obstacle. Based on the use of the tapered waves with very narrow widths illuminating the obstacle, the boundary of the obstacle is reconstructed by a direct imaging…

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This paper analyzes inverse scattering for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in the case where the wave speed is piecewise constant. Scattering data recorded for an arbitrarily small interval of frequencies is shown to determine the…

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In this paper, we consider the inverse boundary problems of recovering the time-dependent nonlinearity and damping term for a semilinear wave equation on a Riemannian manifold. The Carleman estimate and the construction of Gaussian beams…

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