Inverse ProblemsPub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/ad5b83
F M Watson, D Andre, W R B Lionheart
{"title":"Resolving full-wave through-wall transmission effects in multi-static synthetic aperture radar","authors":"F M Watson, D Andre, W R B Lionheart","doi":"10.1088/1361-6420/ad5b83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ad5b83","url":null,"abstract":"Through-wall synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging is of significant interest for security purposes, in particular when using multi-static SAR systems consisting of multiple distributed radar transmitters and receivers to improve resolution and the ability to recognise objects. Yet there is a significant challenge in forming focused, useful images due to multiple scattering effects through walls, whereas standard SAR imaging has an inherent single scattering assumption. This may be exacerbated with multi-static collections, since different scattering events will be observed from each angle and the data may not coherently combine well in a naive manner. To overcome this, we propose an image formation method which resolves full-wave effects through an approximately known wall or other arbitrary obstacle, which itself has some unknown ‘nuisance’ parameters that are determined as part of the reconstruction to provide well focused images. The method is more flexible and realistic than existing methods which treat a single wall as a flat layered medium, whilst being significantly computationally cheaper than full-wave methods, strongly motivated by practical considerations for through-wall SAR.","PeriodicalId":50275,"journal":{"name":"Inverse Problems","volume":"365 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inverse ProblemsPub Date : 2024-07-03DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/ad5b81
Tian Niu, Junliang Lv and Jiahui Gao
{"title":"Uniqueness and numerical method for phaseless inverse diffraction grating problem with known superposition of incident point sources","authors":"Tian Niu, Junliang Lv and Jiahui Gao","doi":"10.1088/1361-6420/ad5b81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ad5b81","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we establish the uniqueness of identifying a smooth grating profile with a mixed boundary condition (MBC) or transmission boundary conditions (TBCs) from phaseless data. The existing uniqueness result requires the measured data to be in a bounded domain. To break this restriction, we design an incident system consisting of the superposition of point sources to reduce the measurement data from a bounded domain to a line above the grating profile. We derive reciprocity relations for point sources, diffracted fields, and total fields, respectively. Based on Rayleigh’s expansion and reciprocity relation of the total field, a grating profile with a MBC or TBCs can be uniquely determined from the phaseless total field data. An iterative algorithm is proposed to recover the Fourier modes of grating profiles at a fixed wavenumber. To implement this algorithm, we derive the Fréchet derivative of the total field operator and its adjoint operator. Some numerical examples are presented to verify the correctness of theoretical results and to show the effectiveness of our numerical algorithm.","PeriodicalId":50275,"journal":{"name":"Inverse Problems","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141548474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inverse ProblemsPub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/ad5b82
Lingzheng Kong, Youjun Deng and Liyan Zhu
{"title":"Inverse conductivity problem with one measurement: uniqueness of multi-layer structures","authors":"Lingzheng Kong, Youjun Deng and Liyan Zhu","doi":"10.1088/1361-6420/ad5b82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ad5b82","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study the recovery of multi-layer structures in inverse conductivity problem by using one measurement. First, we define the concept of Generalized Polarization Tensors (GPTs) for multi-layered medium and show some important properties of the proposed GPTs. With the help of GPTs, we present the perturbation formula for general multi-layered medium. Then we derive the perturbed electric potential for multi-layer concentric disks structure in terms of the so-called generalized polarization matrix, whose dimension is the same as the number of the layers. By delicate analysis, we derive an algebraic identity involving the geometric and material configurations of multi-layer concentric disks. This enables us to reconstruct the multi-layer structures by using only one partial-order measurement.","PeriodicalId":50275,"journal":{"name":"Inverse Problems","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141511938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inverse ProblemsPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/ad5a34
Nagendra Kumar Chaurasia and Shubhankar Chakraborty
{"title":"Bayesian interface technique-based inverse estimation of closure coefficients of standard k−ϵ turbulence model by limiting the number of DNS data points for flow over a periodic hill","authors":"Nagendra Kumar Chaurasia and Shubhankar Chakraborty","doi":"10.1088/1361-6420/ad5a34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ad5a34","url":null,"abstract":"Among different numerical methods for modeling turbulent flow, Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) is the most commonly used and computationally reasonable. However, the accuracy of RANS is lower than that of other high-fidelity numerical methods. In this work, the uncertainties associated with the coefficients of the standard RANS turbulence model are estimated and calibrated to improve the accuracy. The calibration is performed by considering the coefficients individually as well as collectively. The first three coefficients of the standard turbulence model are calibrated among the five coefficients ( and σk ). The Bayesian inference technique using the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm is applied to quantify uncertainties and calibration. Flow over a periodic hill is selected as a test case. The separation height of the bubble at and , along with the streamwise velocity at various locations, has been chosen as the quantities of interest for comparing the results with DNS. The calibration is performed using known high-fidelity data (direct numerical simulation) from the available data set. The velocity field is re-calculated from the calibrated closure coefficients and compared with the same calculated with the standard coefficients of turbulence model (baseline). The deviation of calibrated Cµ is almost 50%–60% from baseline and for and it is 3%–12% and 6%–9% respectively. The algorithm is tested for different Reynold numbers and data points. A sensitivity analysis is also performed.","PeriodicalId":50275,"journal":{"name":"Inverse Problems","volume":"205 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141511937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inverse ProblemsPub Date : 2024-06-25DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/ad5583
Nathaniel Pritchard and Vivak Patel
{"title":"Solving, tracking and stopping streaming linear inverse problems","authors":"Nathaniel Pritchard and Vivak Patel","doi":"10.1088/1361-6420/ad5583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ad5583","url":null,"abstract":"In large-scale applications including medical imaging, collocation differential equation solvers, and estimation with differential privacy, the underlying linear inverse problem can be reformulated as a streaming problem. In theory, the streaming problem can be effectively solved using memory-efficient, exponentially-converging streaming solvers. In special cases when the underlying linear inverse problem is finite-dimensional, streaming solvers can periodically evaluate the residual norm at a substantial computational cost. When the underlying system is infinite dimensional, streaming solver can only access noisy estimates of the residual. While such noisy estimates are computationally efficient, they are useful only when their accuracy is known. In this work, we rigorously develop a general family of computationally-practical residual estimators and their uncertainty sets for streaming solvers, and we demonstrate the accuracy of our methods on a number of large-scale linear problems. Thus, we further enable the practical use of streaming solvers for important classes of linear inverse problems.","PeriodicalId":50275,"journal":{"name":"Inverse Problems","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141511939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inverse ProblemsPub Date : 2024-06-23DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/ad575c
Antonio Corbo Esposito, Luisa Faella, Vincenzo Mottola, Gianpaolo Piscitelli, Ravi Prakash and Antonello Tamburrino
{"title":"Piecewise nonlinear materials and Monotonicity Principle","authors":"Antonio Corbo Esposito, Luisa Faella, Vincenzo Mottola, Gianpaolo Piscitelli, Ravi Prakash and Antonello Tamburrino","doi":"10.1088/1361-6420/ad575c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ad575c","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the Monotonicity Principle (MP) for nonlinear materials with piecewise growth exponent. The results obtained are relevant because they enable the use of a fast imaging method based on MP, applied to a wide class of problems with two or more materials, at least one of which is nonlinear. The treatment is very general and makes it possible to model a wide range of practical configurations such as superconducting (SC), perfect electrical conducting (PEC) or perfect electrical insulating (PEI) materials. A key role is played by the average Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator, introduced in Corbo Esposito et al (2021 Inverse Problems37 045012), where the MP for a single type of nonlinearity was treated. Realistic numerical examples confirm the theoretical findings.","PeriodicalId":50275,"journal":{"name":"Inverse Problems","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141511940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inverse ProblemsPub Date : 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/ad52bb
C M Wensrich, S Holman, M Courdurier, W R B Lionheart, A P Polyakova and I E Svetov
{"title":"Direct inversion of the Longitudinal ray transform for 2D residual elastic strain fields","authors":"C M Wensrich, S Holman, M Courdurier, W R B Lionheart, A P Polyakova and I E Svetov","doi":"10.1088/1361-6420/ad52bb","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ad52bb","url":null,"abstract":"We examine the problem of Bragg-edge elastic strain tomography from energy resolved neutron transmission imaging. A new approach is developed for two-dimensional plane-stress and plane-strain systems whereby elastic strain can be reconstructed from its Longitudinal ray transform (LRT) as two parts of a Helmholtz decomposition based on the concept of an Airy stress potential. The solenoidal component of this decomposition is reconstructed using an inversion formula based on a tensor filtered back projection (FBP) algorithm whereas the potential part can be recovered using either Hooke’s law or a finite element model of the elastic system. The technique is demonstrated for two-dimensional plane-stress systems in both simulation, and on real experimental data. We also demonstrate that application of the standard scalar FBP algorithm to the LRT in these systems recovers the trace of the solenoidal component of strain and we provide physical meaning for this quantity in the case of 2D plane-stress and plane-strain systems.","PeriodicalId":50275,"journal":{"name":"Inverse Problems","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141511941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inverse ProblemsPub Date : 2024-06-11DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/ad4dda
Yan Chang, Yukun Guo, Hongyu Liu and Deyue Zhang
{"title":"A novel Newton method for inverse elastic scattering problems","authors":"Yan Chang, Yukun Guo, Hongyu Liu and Deyue Zhang","doi":"10.1088/1361-6420/ad4dda","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ad4dda","url":null,"abstract":"This work is concerned with an inverse elastic scattering problem of identifying the unknown rigid obstacle embedded in an open space filled with a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium. A Newton-type iteration method relying on the boundary condition is designed to identify the boundary curve of the obstacle. Based on the Helmholtz decomposition and the Fourier–Bessel expansion, we explicitly derive the approximate scattered field and its derivative on each iterative curve. Rigorous mathematical justifications for the proposed method are provided. Numerical examples are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":50275,"journal":{"name":"Inverse Problems","volume":"205 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141511942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inverse ProblemsPub Date : 2024-06-10DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/ad4f0b
Kai Li, Bo Zhang, Haiwen Zhang
{"title":"Reconstruction of inhomogeneous media by an iteration algorithm with a learned projector","authors":"Kai Li, Bo Zhang, Haiwen Zhang","doi":"10.1088/1361-6420/ad4f0b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ad4f0b","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of reconstructing an inhomogeneous medium from the acoustic far-field data at a fixed frequency in two dimensions. This inverse problem is severely ill-posed (and also strongly nonlinear), and certain regularization strategy is thus needed. However, it is difficult to select an appropriate regularization strategy which should enforce some <italic toggle=\"yes\">a priori</italic> information of the unknown scatterer. To address this issue, we plan to use a deep learning approach to learn some <italic toggle=\"yes\">a priori</italic> information of the unknown scatterer from certain ground truth data, which is then combined with a traditional iteration method to solve the inverse problem. Specifically, we propose a deep learning-based iterative reconstruction algorithm for the inverse problem, based on a repeated application of a deep neural network and the iteratively regularized Gauss–Newton method (IRGNM). Our deep neural network (called the learned projector in this paper) mainly focuses on learning the <italic toggle=\"yes\">a priori</italic> information of the <italic toggle=\"yes\">shape</italic> of the unknown contrast with a normalization technique in the training processes and is trained to act like a projector which is helpful for projecting the solution into some feasible region. Extensive numerical experiments show that our reconstruction algorithm provides good reconstruction results even for the high contrast case and has a satisfactory generalization ability.","PeriodicalId":50275,"journal":{"name":"Inverse Problems","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141511943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inverse ProblemsPub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/ad4669
Bjørn Jensen, Adrian Kirkeby and Kim Knudsen
{"title":"Feasibility of acousto-electric tomography","authors":"Bjørn Jensen, Adrian Kirkeby and Kim Knudsen","doi":"10.1088/1361-6420/ad4669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ad4669","url":null,"abstract":"In acousto-electric tomography (AET) the goal is to reconstruct the electric conductivity in a domain from electrostatic boundary measurements of corresponding currents and voltages, while the domain is perturbed by a time-dependent acoustic wave, thus taking advantage of the acousto-electric effect. We approach the AET reconstruction in two steps: First, the interior power density is obtained from boundary measurements by solving a linear inverse and ill-posed problem; second, the interior conductivity is reconstructed from the power density by solving a non-linear and well-posed problem. Mathematically these inverse problems are fairly well understood, and reconstruction methods work well on synthetic data. This is in contrast to experimental findings. An effect can indeed be observed and data can be collected. However, the acousto-electric coupling is very weak, and consequently, the change in the measured voltage due to the acoustic perturbation might be too small compared to the background noise for viable reconstructions. In this paper, we take one step towards understanding the feasibility of AET. We provide an in-silico model of the coupled physics scenario based on standard models for the individual phenomena. Moreover, we formulate and implement numerically a full reconstruction method for the inverse problem via the two steps. We perform computational experiments with realistically chosen parameters from the context of medical imaging. The focus is on understanding the role of the acousto-electric coupling parameter and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The critical signal strength is analyzed and the omnipresent Johnson–Nyquist noise is estimated. We obtain both positive and negative findings; we can reconstruct features even under severe noise conditions, but we also find that the SNR one is likely to face in practice is too low to obtain useful reconstructions.","PeriodicalId":50275,"journal":{"name":"Inverse Problems","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141252489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}