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# On finding a buried obstacle in a layered medium via the time domain enclosure method

• An inverse obstacle problem for the wave equation in a two layered medium is considered. It is assumed that the unknown obstacle is penetrable and embedded in the lower half-space. The wave as a solution of the wave equation is generated by an initial data whose support is in the upper half-space and observed at the same place as the support over a finite time interval. From the observed wave an indicator function in the time domain enclosure method is constructed. It is shown that, one can find some information about the geometry of the obstacle together with the qualitative property in the asymptotic behavior of the indicator function.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35L05, 35P25, 35B40, 35R30; Secondary: 74J25.

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