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In this paper, based on real-time nonlinear receding horizon control methodology, a novel approach is developed for parameter estimation of time invariant and time varying nonlinear dynamical systems in chaotic environments. Here, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Fei Sun , Kamran Turkoglu

Temporal modulation of material parameters offers unprecedented control over wave dynamics, enabling phenomena beyond the capabilities of static systems. Here we introduce and analyze a robust mechanism for time rewinding, whereby a…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

We consider the time-harmonic elastic wave scattering from a general (possibly anisotropic) inhomogeneous medium with an embedded impenetrable obstacle. We show that the impenetrable obstacle can be effectively approximated by an isotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Zhengjian Bai , Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Qingle Meng

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing the boundary curve of a cavity embedded in a bounded domain. The problem is formulated in two dimensions for the wave equation. We combine the Laguerre transform with the integral equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Roman Chapko , Leonidas Mindrinos

Many phenomena in physics, including light, water waves, and sound, are described by wave equations. Given their coefficients, wave equations can be solved to high accuracy, but the presence of the wavelength scale often leads to large…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Timo Gahlmann , Philippe Tassin

In this paper, we are concerned with the stochastic time-fractional diffusion-wave equations in a Hilbert space. The main objective of this paper is to establish properties of the stochastic weak solutions of the initial-boundary value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Matti Lassas , Zhiyuan Li , Zhidong Zhang

We propose and test an iterative technique for improving the temporal focusing of a time reversal mirror. A single amplification parameter is introduced to tune the convergence of the iteration. The tunable iterative technique is validated…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-25 Biniyam Tesfaye Taddese , Thomas M. Antonsen , Edward Ott , Steven M. Anlage

The aim of this paper is to study the feasibility of time-reversal methods in a non homogeneous elastic medium, from data recorded in an acoustic medium. We aim to determine, from partial aperture boundary measurements, the presence and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Franck Assous , Moshe Lin

To address the ill-posedness of the inverse source problem for the one-dimensional stochastic Helmholtz equations without attenuation, this study develops a novel computational framework designed to mitigate this inherent challenge at the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Yunqing Huang , Shihan Zhang

A problem of a wave identification is formulated. An example is considered in conditions of one-dimensional Cauchy problem for conventional string equation in matrix form and its inhomogeneous two-component version. The acoustic and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Sergey Leble , Irina Vereshchagina

Time reversal of acoustic waves can be achieved efficiently by the persistent control of excitations in a finite region of the system. The procedure, called Time Reversal Mirror, is stable against the inhomogeneities of the medium and it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Hernán L. Calvo , Horacio M. Pastawski

We study the role of time-reversal symmetry on the dynamical response of nonlinear optical systems that behave as unidirectional ("one-way") devices. It is shown that lossless nonlinear materials, despite being nonreciprocal, are typically…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-05-30 David E. Fernandes , Mário G. Silveirinha

A standard inverse problem is to determine a source which is supported in an unknown domain $D$ from external boundary measurements. Here we consider the case of a time-dependent situation where the source is equal to unity in an unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-08 William Rundell , Zhidong Zhang

In this paper, a time domain enclosure method for an inverse obstacle scattering problem of electromagnetic wave is introduced. The wave as a solution of Maxwell's equations is generated by an applied volumetric current having an {\it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Masaru Ikehata

We study an inverse problem for the wave equation, concerned with estimating the wave speed, aka velocity, from data gathered by an array of sources and receivers that emit probing signals and measure the resulting waves. The typical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Alexander V. Mamonov , Jörn Zimmerling

Inverse problems involve making inference about unknown parameters of a physical process using observational data. This paper investigates an important class of inverse problems -- the estimation of the initial condition of a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-09 Xiao Liu , Kyongmin Yeo

This paper develops a high-accuracy algorithm for time fractional wave problems, which employs a spectral method in the temporal discretization and a finite element method in the spatial discretization. Moreover, stability and convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Binjie Li , Hao Luo , Xiaoping Xie

The inverse problem of reconstructing a source term from boundary measurements, for the wave equation, is revisited. We propose a novel approach to recover the unknown source through measuring the wave fields after injecting small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Mourad Sini , Haibing Wang

The BC-method is an approach to inverse problems based on their relations to the boundary control theory. The paper provides a simple and physically transparent description of the method in the case of dynamical inverse data given at a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-13 M. I. Belishev

We analyze the time reversal of waves in a turbulent medium using the parabolic Markovian model. We prove that the time reversal resolution can be a nonlinear function of the wavelength and independent of the aperture. We establish a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Albert Fannjiang , Knut Solna