Determining the nonlinearity in an acoustic wave equation

DOI10.1002/MMA.8001MaRDI QIDQ6139729zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

Publication date 19 December 2023

Published in Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04058

zbMATH Keywords

reconstruction algorithmsnonlinear acousticssecond-order quasilinear hyperbolic equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Second-order quasilinear hyperbolic equations (35L72) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30)

Abstract: We consider an undetermined coefficient inverse problem for a nonlinear partial differential equation describing high intensity ultrasound propagation as widely used in medical imaging and therapy. The usual nonlinear term in the standard model using the Westervelt equation in pressure formulation is of the form $p{p}_t$. However, this should be considered as a low order approximation to a more complex physical model where higher order terms will be required. Here we assume a more general case where the form taken is $f(p),p_t$ and $f$ is unknown and must be recovered from data measurements. Corresponding to the typical measurement setup, the overposed data consists of time trace observations of the acoustic pressure at a single point or on a one dimensional set $Sigma$ representing the receiving transducer array at a fixed time. Additionally to an analysis of well-posedness of the resulting {sc pde}, we show injectivity of the linearized forward map from $f$ to the overposed data and use this as motivation for several iterative schemes to recover $f$. Numerical simulations will also be shown to illustrate the efficiency of the methods.

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