The Herglotz wave function, the Vekua transform and the enclosure method

DOI10.32917/HMJ/1150998324MaRDI QIDQ2493359zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Masaru Ikehata

Publication date 12 June 2006

Published in Hiroshima Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06947

zbMATH Keywords

far field patternHerglotz wave functioninverse scattering problempiecewise linear crackssound-hard obstaclesVekua transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A46)

Abstract: This paper gives applications of the enclosure method introduced by the author to typical inverse obstacle and crack scattering problems in two dimensions. Explicit extraction formulae of the convex hull of unknown polygonal sound-hard obstacles and piecewise linear cracks from the far field pattern of the scattered field at a fixed wave number and at most two incident directions are given. The main new points of this paper are: a combination of the enclosure method and the Herglotz wave function; explicit construction of the density in the Herglotz wave function by using the idea of the Vekua transform. By virtue of the construction, one can avoid any restriction on the wave number in the extraction formulae. An attempt for the case when the far field pattern is given on limited angles is also given.

Review text

Explicit extraction formulae of the convex hull of unknown polygonal sound-hard obstacles and piecewise linear cracks from the far field pattern of the scattered field at a fixed wave number and at most two incident directions are given. The main new points of this paper are: a combination of the enclosure method (introduced by the author) and the Herglotz wave function; explicit construction of the density in the Herglotz wave function by using the idea of the Vekua transform. An attempt for the case when the far field pattern is given on limited angles is also given.

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