Mathematics – Analysis of PDEs
Scientific paper
2011-06-16
Mathematics
Analysis of PDEs
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Scientific paper
We consider boundary measurements for the wave equation on a bounded domain $M \subset \R^2$ or on a compact Riemannian surface, and introduce a method to locate a discontinuity in the wave speed. Assuming that the wave speed consist of an inclusion in a known smooth background, the method can determine the distance from any boundary point to the inclusion. In the case of a known constant background wave speed, the method reconstructs a set contained in the convex hull of the inclusion and containing the inclusion. Even if the background wave speed is unknown, the method can reconstruct the distance from each boundary point to the inclusion assuming that the Riemannian metric tensor determined by the wave speed gives simple geometry in $M$. The method is based on reconstruction of volumes of domains of influence by solving a sequence of linear equations. For $\tau \in C(\p M)$ the domain of influence $M(\tau)$ is the set of those points on the manifold from which the distance to some boundary point $x$ is less than $\tau(x)$.
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