Focusing waves in unknown media by modified time reversal iteration

DOI10.1137/070705192MaRDI QIDQ3557948zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matias F. Dahl, A. S. Kirpichnikova, M. Lassas

Publication date 28 April 2010

Published in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2193

zbMATH Keywords

focusing of wavestime reversalwave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Controllability (93B05)

Abstract: We study the wave equation in a bounded domain or on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. Assume that we are given the hyperbolic Neumann-to-Dirichlet map on the boundary corresponding to physical boundary measurements. We consider how to focus waves, that is, how to find Neumann boundary values so that at a given time the corresponding wave converges to a delta distribution $delt{a}_y$ while the time derivative of the wave converges to zero. Such boundary value are generated by an iterative sequence of measurements. In each iteration step we apply time reversal and other simple operators to measured data and compute boundary values for the next iteration step. The key feature of the algorithm is that it does not require knowledge of the coefficients in the wave equation, that is, the material parameters inside the media. However, we assume that the point $y$ where the wave focuses is known in travel time coordinates.

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