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Title: An inverse acoustic-elastic interaction problem with phased or phaseless far-field data
Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic acoustic plane wave by a bounded elastic obstacle which is immersed in a homogeneous acoustic medium. This paper is concerned with an inverse acoustic-elastic interaction problem, which is to determine the location and shape of the elastic obstacle by using either the phased or phaseless far-field data. By introducing the Helmholtz decomposition, the model problem is reduced to a coupled boundary value problem of the Helmholtz equations. The jump relations are studied for the second derivatives of the single-layer potential in order to deduce the corresponding boundary integral equations. The well-posedness is discussed for the solution of the coupled boundary integral equations. An efficient and high order Nyström-type discretization method is proposed for the integral system. A numerical method of nonlinear integral equations is developed for the inverse problem. For the case of phaseless data, we show that the modulus of the far-field pattern is invariant under a translation of the obstacle. To break the translation invariance, an elastic reference ball technique is introduced. We prove that the inverse problem with phaseless far-field pattern has a unique solution under certain conditions. In addition, a numerical method of the reference ball technique based nonlinear integral equations is proposed for the phaseless inverse problem. Numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed methods.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1912704
PAR ID:
10182369
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Inverse problems
Volume:
36
ISSN:
0266-5611
Page Range / eLocation ID:
035014
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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