Extraction of the index of refraction by embedding multiple small inclusions

DOI10.1088/0266-5611/32/4/045004zbMATH Open1398.76206arXiv1505.04614OpenAlexW3104822379MaRDI QIDQ2806027FDOQ2806027

Ahmed Alsaedi, Mourad Sini, Mokhtar Kirane, Faris Alzahrani, Durga Prasad Challa

Publication date: 13 May 2016

Published in: Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We deal with the problem of reconstructing material coefficients from the farfields they generate. By embedding small (single) inclusions to these media, located at points $z$ in the support of these materials, and measuring the farfields generated by these deformations we can extract the values of the total field generated by these media at the points $z$. The second step is to extract the values of the material coefficients from these internal values of the total field. The main difficulty in using internal fields is the treatment of their possible zeros. In this work, we propose to deform the medium using multiple (precisely double) and close inclusions instead of only single ones. By doing so, we derive from the asymptotic expansions of the farfields the internal values of the Green function, in addition to the internal values of the total fields. This is possible because of the deformation of the medium with multiple and close inclusions which generates scattered fields due to the multiple scattering between these inclusions. Then, the values of the index of refraction can be extracted from the singularities of the Green function. Hence, we overcome the difficulties arising from the zeros of the internal fields. We test these arguments for the acoustic scattering by a refractive index in presence of inclusions modeled by the impedance type small obstacles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04614

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zbMATH Keywords

inverse acoustic scatteringmultiple scatteringrefraction indexsmall inclusions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Numerical methods for inverse problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N21) Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05)

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