Newton-Like Method for Solving Inverse Obstacle Acoustic Scattering Problems

Abstract

A Newton-like method is designed for determining the shape or sought-after shape modifications of a scatterer from the knowledge of acoustic far-field patterns at a given number of observation points. This method distinguishes itself from existing numerical procedures by the following features: (a) exact Jacobian matrices for the linearized problems rather than approximate ones, (b) a fast numerical procedure for computing these Jacobian matrices, (c) a computationally efficient absorbing boundary condition for the finite element discretization, and (d) a numerically scalable domain decomposition methods for the fast solution of high-frequency direct acoustic scattering problems.