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February  2016, 10(1): 131-163. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2016.10.131

The enclosure method for inverse obstacle scattering using a single electromagnetic wave in time domain

 1 Laboratory of Mathematics, Institute of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi Hiroshima 739-8527

Received  October 2014 Revised  July 2015 Published  February 2016

In this paper, a time domain enclosure method for an inverse obstacle scattering problem of electromagnetic wave is introduced. The wave as a solution of Maxwell's equations is generated by an applied volumetric current having an orientation and supported outside an unknown obstacle and observed on the same support over a finite time interval. It is assumed that the obstacle is a perfect conductor. Two types of analytical formulae which employ a single observed wave and explicitly contain information about the geometry of the obstacle are given. In particular, an effect of the orientation of the current is catched in one of two formulae. Two corollaries concerning with the detection of the points on the surface of the obstacle nearest to the centre of the current support and curvatures at the points are also given.
Citation: Masaru Ikehata. The enclosure method for inverse obstacle scattering using a single electromagnetic wave in time domain. Inverse Problems & Imaging, 2016, 10 (1) : 131-163. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2016.10.131
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Obstacles with a dissipative boundary or finite refractive index and back-scattering data, Inverse Problems, 28 (2012), 045010, 29pp. doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/28/4/045010.  Google Scholar [16] M. Ikehata, An inverse acoustic scattering problem inside a cavity with dynamical back-scattering data, Inverse Problems, 28 (2012), 095016, 24pp. doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/28/9/095016.  Google Scholar [17] M. Ikehata, The enclosure method for inverse obstacle scattering problems with dynamical data over a finite time interval: III. Sound-soft obstacle and bistatic data, Inverse Problems, 29 (2013), 085013, 35pp. doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/29/8/085013.  Google Scholar [18] M. Ikehata, Extracting the geometry of an obstacle and a zeroth-order coefficient of a boundary condition via the enclosure method using a single reflected wave over a finite time interval, Inverse Problems, 30 (2014), 045011, 24pp. doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/30/4/045011.  Google Scholar [19] M. Ikehata and H. 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Zou, Reflection principle for the Maxwell equations and its application to inverse electromagnetic scattering, Inverse Problems, 23 (2007), 2357-2366. doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/23/6/005.  Google Scholar [24] A. Majda and M. Taylor, Inverse scattering problems for transparent obstacles, electromagnetic waves, and hyperbolic systems, Comm. in Partial Differential Equations, 2 (1977), 395-438. doi: 10.1080/03605307708820035.  Google Scholar [25] J.-C. Nédélec, Acoustic and Electromagnetic Equations, Integral Representations for Harmonic Problems, Springer, New York, 2001. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4757-4393-7.  Google Scholar [26] B. O'Neill, Elementary Differential Geometry, Revised, $2^{nd}$ edition, Academic Press, 2006.  Google Scholar
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