Identification of the interface between acoustic and elastic waves from internal measurements

Consider the fluid-solid interaction problem for a two-layered non-penetrable cavity. We provide a novel fundamental proof for a uniqueness theorem on the determination of the interface between acoustic and elastic waves from many internal measurements, disregarding the boundary conditions imposed on the exterior non-penetrable boundary. The proof depends on a uniform {H^{1}}-norm boundedness for the elastic wave fields and the construction of the coupled interior transmission problem related to the acoustic and elastic wave fields.

Solvability of interior transmission problem for the diffusion equation by constructing its Green function

Consider the interior transmission problem arising in inverse boundary value problems for the diffusion equation with discontinuous diffusion coefficients. We prove the unique solvability of the interior transmission problem by constructing its Green function. First, we construct a local parametrix for the interior transmission problem near the boundary in the Laplace domain, by using the theory of pseudo-differential operators with a large parameter. Second, by carefully analyzing the analyticity of the local parametrix in the Laplace domain and estimating it there, a local parametrix for the original parabolic interior transmission problem is obtained via the inverse Laplace transform. Finally, using a partition of unity, we patch all the local parametrices and the fundamental solution of the diffusion equation to generate a global parametrix for the parabolic interior transmission problem and then compensate it to get the Green function by the Levi method. The uniqueness of the Green function is justified by using the duality argument, and then the unique solvability of the interior transmission problem is concluded. We would like to emphasize that the Green function for the parabolic interior transmission problem is constructed for the first time in this paper. It can be applied for active thermography and diffuse optical tomography modeled by diffusion equations to identify an unknown inclusion and its physical property.

Inverse Uniqueness in Interior Transmission Problem and Its Eigenvalue Tunneling in Simple Domain

We study inverse uniqueness with a knowledge of spectral data of an interior transmission problem in a penetrable simple domain. We expand the solution in a series of one-dimensional problems in the far-fields. We define an ODE by restricting the PDE along a fixed scattered direction. Accordingly, we obtain a Sturm-Liouville problem for each scattered direction. There exists the correspondence between the ODE spectrum and the PDE spectrum. We deduce the inverse uniqueness on the index of refraction from the discussion on the uniqueness anglewise of the Strum-Liouville problem.