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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

This paper is concerned with analysis of electromagnetic wave scattering by an obstacle which is embedded in a two-layered lossy medium separated by an unbounded rough surface. Given a dipole point source, the direct problem is to determine…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Peijun Li , Jue Wang , Lei Zhang

Sparse distributions of seismic sensors and sources pose challenges for subsurface imaging, source characterization, and ground motion modeling. While large-N arrays have shown the potential of dense observational data, their deployment…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Zhengfa Bi , Nori Nakata , Rie Nakata , Pu Ren , Xinming Wu , Michael W. Mahoney

We present a wave-equation inversion method that inverts skeletonized data for the subsurface velocity model. The skeletonized representation of the seismic traces consists of the low-rank latent-space variables predicted by a well-trained…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-04-25 Yuqing Chen , Gerard T. Schuster

Motivated by applications to acoustic imaging, the present work establishes a framework to analyze scattering for the one-dimensional wave, Helmholtz, Schr\"odinger and Riccati equations that allows for coefficients which are more singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Peter C. Gibson

The initial-value problem for cylindrical gravitational waves is studied through the development of the inverse scattering method scheme. The inverse scattering transform in this case can be viewed as a transformation of the Cauchy data to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. G. Varzugin

Oceanic internal tides and other inertia-gravity waves propagate in an energetic turbulent flow whose lengthscales are similar to the wavelengths. Advection and refraction by this flow cause the scattering of the waves, redistributing their…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Miles A. C. Savva , Jacques Vanneste

This paper addresses the inverse scattering problem of a random potential associated with the polyharmonic wave equation in two and three dimensions. The random potential is represented as a centered complex-valued generalized microlocally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Jianliang Li , Peijun Li , Xu Wang , Guanlin Yang

Advances in the field of seismic interferometry have provided a basic theoretical interpretation to the full spectrum of the microtremor horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio [H/V(f)]. The interpretation has been applied to ambient seismic…

The problem of substructure characteristic modes is developed using a scattering matrix-based formulation, generalizing subregion characteristic mode decomposition to arbitrary computational tools. It is shown that the modes of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Mats Gustafsson , Lukas Jelinek , Miloslav Capek , Johan Lundgren , Kurt Schab

A seismic wavefield reconstruction framework based on compressed sensing using the data-driven reduced-order model (ROM) is proposed and its characteristics are investigated through numerical experiments. The data-driven ROM is generated…

We consider the scattering theory for the defocusing energy subcritical wave equations with an inverse square potential. By employing the energy flux method we establish energy flux estimates on the light cone. Then by the characteristic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Changxing Miao , Ruipeng Shen , Tengfei Zhao

In this paper, we consider inverse time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic scattering from locally perturbed rough surfaces in three dimensions. The scattering interface is supposed to be the graph of a Lipschitz continuous function with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Yu Zhao , Guanghui Hu , Baoqiang Yan

Earthquakes cause lasting changes in static equilibrium, resulting in global deformation fields that can be observed. Consequently, deformation measurements such as those provided by satellite based InSAR monitoring can be used to infer an…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 G. J. van Zwieten , E. H. van Brummelen , R. F. Hanssen

In this work we propose a theoretical and computational framework for solving the three dimensional inverse medium scattering problem, based on a set of data-driven basis arising from the linearized problem. This set of data-driven basis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Yuyuan Zhou , Lorenzo Audibert , Shixu Meng , Bo Zhang

Seismic wave propagation forms the basis for most aspects of seismological research, yet solving the wave equation is a major computational burden that inhibits the progress of research. This is exacerbated by the fact that new simulations…

Microwave imaging is commonly based on the solution of linearized inverse scattering problems by matched filtering algorithms, i.e., by applying the adjoint of the forward scattering operator to the observation data. A more rigorous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Matthias M. Saurer , Han Na , Marius Brinkmann , Thomas F. Eibert

Seismic images provided by reverse time migration can be contaminated by artefacts associated with the migration of multiples. Multiples can corrupt seismic images, producing both false positives, i.e. by focusing energy at unphysical…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-08-07 Giovanni Angelo Meles , Lele Zhang , Jan Thorbecke , Kees Wapenaar , Evert Slob

The scattering of quasiperiodic waves for a two-dimensional Helmholtz equation with a constant refractive index perturbed by a function which is periodic in one direction and of finite support in the other is considered. The scattering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 P. Zhevandrov , A. Merzon , M. I. Romero Rodríguez , J. E. de la Paz Méndez

In seismic exploration, sources and measurements of seismic waves on the surface are used to determine model parameters representing geophysical properties of the earth. Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a nonlinear seismic inverse technique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Yunan Yang