Hongpeng Sun

Two Single-Shot Methods for Locating Multiple Electromagnetic Scatterers

We develop two inverse scattering schemes for locating multiple electromagnetic (EM) scatterers by the electric far-field measurement corresponding to a single incident/detecting plane wave. The first scheme is for locating scatterers of small size compared to the wavelength of the detecting plane wave. The multiple scatterers could be extremely general with an unknown number of components, and each scatterer component could be either an impenetrable perfectly conducting obstacle or a penetrable inhomogeneous medium with an unknown content. The second scheme is for locating multiple perfectly conducting obstacles of regular size compared to the detecting EM wavelength. The number of the obstacle components is not required to be known in advance, but the shape of each component must be from a certain known admissible class. The admissible class may consist of multiple different reference obstacles. The second scheme could also be extended to include the medium components if a certain generic condition is s...

Enhanced approximate cloaking by SH and FSH lining

We consider approximate cloaking from a regularization viewpoint introduced in Kohn et al (2008 Inverse Problems 24 015016) for EIT and further investigated in Kohn et al (2010 Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 63 0973?1016) and Liu (2009 Inverse Problems 25 045006) for the Helmholtz equation. The cloaking schemes given by Kohn et al and Liu are shown to be (optimally) within |ln??|?1 in 2D and ? in 3D of perfect cloaking, where ? denotes the regularization parameter. In this paper, we show that by employing a sound-hard layer right outside the cloaked region, one could (optimally) achieve ?N in , which significantly enhances the near-cloak. We then develop a cloaking scheme by making use of a lossy layer with well-chosen parameters. The lossy-layer cloaking scheme is shown to possess the same cloaking performance as the one with a sound-hard layer. Moreover, it is shown that the lossy layer could be taken as a finite realization of the sound-hard layer. Numerical experiments are also presented to assess the cloaking performances of all the cloaking schemes for comparisons.

Reconstructing acoustic obstacles by planar and cylindrical waves

In this paper, we develop a novel method of reconstructing acoustic obstacles in R2, which follows a similar spirit of the linear sampling method originated by Colton and Kirsch. The reconstruction scheme makes use of the near-field measurements encoded into the boundary Dirichlet-to-Neumann map or the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map. Both the plane waves and cylindrical waves are shown to meet the reconstruction purpose. Rigorous mathematical justification of the reconstruction scheme is established. The mapping properties of the newly introduced function operators involved in the reconstruction scheme are established. These results are of significant mathematical interests for their own sake. Moreover, due to the distinct properties of the function operators, the indictor function in the proposed reconstruction scheme exhibits completely different behaviors from those having been established for the indictor function in the original linear sampling method for inverse scattering problems. Numerical experiments ...

On an inverse elastic wave imaging scheme for nearly incompressible materials

This paper is devoted to the algorithmic development of inverse elastic scattering problems. We focus on reconstructing the locations and shapes of elastic scatterers with known dictionary data for the nearly incompressible materials. The scatterers include non-penetrable rigid obstacles and penetrable mediums, and we use time-harmonic elastic point signals as the incident input waves. The scattered waves are collected in a relatively small backscattering aperture on a bounded surface. A two-stage algorithm is proposed for the reconstruction and only two incident waves of different wavenumbers are required. The unknown scatterer is first approximately located by using the measured data at a small wavenumber, and then the shape of the scatterer is determined by the computed location of the scatterer together with the measured data at a regular wavenumber. The corresponding mathematical principle with rigorous analysis is presented. Numerical tests illustrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method.