On determining an absorption coefficient and a speed of sound in the wave equation by the BC method

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29 November 2013

journal article
research article
Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Journal of Inverse and Ill-posed Problems

Vol. 22 (2) , 245-250
DOI:10.1515/jip-2013-0012

Abstract

: We consider the inverse multidimensional problem for the wave equation with unknown variable speed and absorbtion. A linear procedure based on the boundary control method for determining both coefficients is proposed.

Keywords

INVERSE DYNAMICAL PROBLEM
WAVE EQUATION
BOUNDARY CONTROL METHOD