Huygens' principle and iterative methods in inverse obstacle scattering (Q609549): Difference between revisions

The inverse problem the authors consider is to determine the shape of an obstacle from the knowledge of the far field pattern for scattering of time-harmonic plane waves. In the case of scattering from a sound-soft obstacle, Huygens' principle will be interpreted as a system of two integral equations. The scattering of a time harmonic incident wave \(u^{i}\) by a sound-soft obstacle which is a bounded domain \(D\subset \mathbb{R}^{m}, m=2,3\) with a connected complement is treated. This is modeled by an exterior boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation \[ \triangle u^{s}+k^{2}u^{s}=0 \quad\text{in} \quad \mathbb{R}^{m}\setminus \overline{D} \qquad k>0, \] with the Dirichlet condition \[ u^{i}+u^{s}=0 \quad \text{on}\quad \partial D \] and the Sommerfeld radiation condition, uniformly in all directions. \[ \frac{\partial u^{s}}{\partial r}-iku^{s}=o\biggr(\frac{1}{r^{\frac{m-1}{2}}}\biggl), \quad r=|x|\rightarrow\infty. \] It is supposed that \(u^{i}=e^{ik x}\cdot d\) where the unit vector \(d\) is the direction of propagation. So the Huygens' principle can be viewed as a system of two integral equations for the unknown boundary \(\partial D\) and the induced surface flux: \[ -\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu} \quad \text{on} \quad \partial D, \] where \(\nu\) is the interior normal vector. Next sections deal with the iteration scheme, which is of Newton type.