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Faouzi Triki

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arXiv2018

Stability estimates for the fault inverse problem

We study in this paper stability estimates for the fault inverse problem. In this problem, faults are assumed to be planar open surfaces in a half space elastic medium with known Lamé coefficients. A traction free condition is imposed on the boundary of the half space. Displacement fields present jumps across faults, called slips, while traction derivatives are continuous. It was proved in \cite{volkov2017reconstruction} that if the displacement field is known on an open set on the boundary of the half space, then the fault and the slip are uniquely determined. In this present paper, we study the stability of this uniqueness result with regard to the coefficients of the equation of the plane containing the fault. If the slip field is known we state and prove a Lipschitz stability result. In the more interesting case where the slip field is unknown, we state and prove another Lipschitz stability result under the additional assumption, which is still physically relevant, that the slip field is one directional.

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arXiv2018

Identification of an algebraic domain in two dimensions from a finite number of its generalized polarization tensors

This paper aims at studying how finitely many generalized polarization tensors of an algebraic domain can be used to determine its shape. Precisely, given a planar set with real algebraic boundary, it is shown that the minimal polynomial with real coefficients vanishing on the boundary can be identified as the generator of a one dimensional kernel of a matrix whose entries are obtained from a finite number of generalized polarization tensors. The size of the matrix depends polynomially on the degree of the boundary of the algebraic domain. The density with respect to Hausdorff distance of algebraic domains among all bounded domains invites to extend via approximation our reconstruction procedure beyond its natural context. Based on this, a new algorithm for shape recognition/classification is proposed with some strong hints about its efficiency.

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arXiv2018

Hölder Stability for an Inverse Medium Problem with Internal Data

We are interested in an inverse medium problem with internal data. This problem is originated from multi-waves imaging. We aim in the present work to study the well-posedness of the inversion in terms of the boundary conditions. We precisely show that we have actually a stability estimate of Hölder type. For sake of simplicity, we limited our study to the class of Helmholtz equations $Δ$+V with bounded potential V.

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arXiv2018

An inverse problem for an electroseismic model describing the coupling phenomenon of electromagnetic and seismic waves

The electroseismic model describes the coupling phenomenon of the electromagnetic waves and seismic waves in fluid immersed porous rock. Electric parameters have better contrast than elastic parameters while seismic waves provide better resolution because of the short wavelength. The combination of theses two different waves is prominent in oil exploration. Under some assumptions on the physical parameters, we derived a Hölder stability estimate to the inverse problem of recovery of the electric parameters and the coupling coefficient from the knowledge of the fields in a small open domain near the boundary. The proof is based on a Carleman estimate of the electroseismic model.

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arXiv2018

The plasmonic resonances of a bowtie antenna

Metallic bowtie-shaped nanostructures are very interesting objects in optics, due to their capability of localizing and enhancing electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of their central neck. In this article, we investigate the electrostatic plasmonic resonances of two-dimensional bowtie-shaped domains by looking at the spectrum of their Poincaré variational operator. In particular, we show that the latter only consists of essential spectrum and fills the whole interval $[0,1]$. This behavior is very different from what occurs in the counterpart situation of a bowtie domain with only close-to-touching wings, a case where the essential spectrum of the Poincaré variational operator is reduced to an interval strictly contained in $[0,1]$. We provide an explanation for this difference by showing that the spectrum of the Poincaré variational operator of bowtie-shaped domains with close-to-touching wings has eigenvalues which densify and eventually fill the remaining intervals as the distance between the two wings tends to zero.

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arXiv2017

A global stability estimate for the photo-acoustic inverse problem in layered media

This paper is concerned with the stability issue in determining absorption and diffusion coefficients in photoacoustic imaging. Assuming that the medium is layered and the acoustic wave speed is known we derive global Hölder stability estimates of the photo-acoustic inversion. These results show that the reconstruction is stable in the region close to the optical illumination source, and deteriorate exponentially far away. Several experimental pointed out that the resolution depth of the photo-acoustic modality is about tens of millimeters. Our stability estimates confirm these observations and give a rigorous quantification of this depth resolution.

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arXiv2017

Numerical determination of anomalies in multifrequency electrical impedance tomography

The multifrequency electrical impedance tomography consists in retrieving the conductivity distribution of a sample by injecting a finite number of currents with multiple frequencies. In this paper we consider the case where the conductivity distribution is piecewise constant, takes a constant value outside a single smooth anomaly, and a frequency dependent function inside the anomaly itself. Using an original spectral decomposition of the solution of the forward conductivity problem in terms of Poincaré variational eigenelements, we retrieve the Cauchy data corresponding to the extreme case of a perfect conductor, and the conductivity profile. We then reconstruct the anomaly from the Cauchy data. The numerical experiments are conducted using gradient descent optimization algorithms.

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arXiv2017

Homogenization of the eigenvalues of the Neumann-Poincaré operator

In this article, we investigate the spectrum of the Neumann-Poincaré operator associated to a periodic distribution of small inclusions with size $\varepsilon$, and its asymptotic behavior as the parameter $\varepsilon$ vanishes. Combining techniques pertaining to the fields of homogenization and potential theory, we prove that the limit spectrum is composed of the `trivial' eigenvalues $0$ and $1$, and of a subset which stays bounded away from $0$ and $1$ uniformly with respect to $\varepsilon$. This non trivial part is the reunion of the \textit{Bloch spectrum}, accounting for the collective resonances between collections of inclusions, and of the \textit{boundary layer spectrum}, associated to eigenfunctions which spend a not too small part of their energies near the boundary of the macroscopic device. These results shed new light about the homogenization of the voltage potential $u_\varepsilon$ caused by a given source in a medium composed of a periodic distribution of small inclusions with an arbitrary (possible negative) conductivity $a$, surrounded by a dielectric medium, with unit conductivity. In particular, we prove that the limit behavior of $u_\varepsilon$ is strongly related to the (possibly ill-defined) homogenized diffusion matrix predicted by the homogenization theory in the standard elliptic case. Additionally, we prove that the homogenization of $u_\varepsilon$ is always possible when $a$ is either positive, or negative with a `small' or `large' modulus.

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arXiv2017

Mathematical modelization of the Photoacoustic effect generated by the heating of metallic nanoparticles

This paper is devoted to the modelization of the photoacoustic effect generated by the electromagnetic heating of metallic nanoparticles embedded in a biological tissue. We first derive an asymptotic models for the plasmonic resonances and the electromagnetic fields. We then describe the acoustic generation created by the electromagnetic heating of the nanoparticle. Precisely, we derive the model equations that describes the coupling between the temperature rise in the medium and the acoustic wave generation. We obtain a direct relation between the acoustic waves and the electromagnetic external sources. Finally, we solve the multiwave inverse problem that consists in the recovery of the electric permittivity of the biological tissue from the measurements of the generated acoustic waves on the boundary of the sample.

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arXiv2016

Small Perturbations of an Interface for Elastostatic Problems

We consider solutions to the Lamé system in two dimensions. By using systematic way, based on layer potential techniques and the field expansion (FE) method (formal derivation), we establish a rigorous asymptotic expansion for the perturbations of the displacement field caused by small perturbations of the shape of an elastic inclusion with C2-boundary. We extend these techniques to determine a relationship between traction-displacement measurements and the shape of the object and derive an asymptotic expansion for the perturbation in the elastic moments tensors (EMTs) due to the presence of small changes in the interface of the inclusion.

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arXiv2016

Identification of an inclusion in Multifrequency Electric Impedance Tomography

The multifrequency electrical impedance tomography is considered in order to image a conductivity inclusion inside a homogeneous background medium by injecting one current. An original spectral decomposition of the solution of the forward conductivity problem is used to retrieve the Cauchy data corresponding to the extreme case of perfect conductor. Using results based on the unique continuation we then prove the uniqueness of multifrequency electrical impedance tomography and obtain rigorous stability estimates. Our results in this paper are quite surprising in inverse conductivity problem since in general infinitely many input currents are needed in order to obtain the uniqueness in the determination of the conductivity.

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arXiv2016

H{ö}lder stability in determining the potential and the damping coefficient in a wave equation

We improve the preceding results obtained by the first and the second authors in [3]. They concern the stability issue of the inverse problem that consists in determining the potential and the damping coefficient in a wave equation from an initial-to-boundary operator. We partially modify the arguments in [3] to show that actually we have H{ö}lder stability instead of logarithmic stability.

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arXiv2015

New Stability Estimates for the Inverse Medium Problem with Internal Data

A major problem in solving multi-waves inverse problems is the presence of critical points where the collected data completely vanishes. The set of these critical points depend on the choice of the boundary conditions, and can be directly determined from the data itself. To our knowledge, in the most existing stability results, the boundary conditions are assumed to be close to a set of CGO solutions where the critical points can be avoided. We establish in the present work new weighted stability estimates for an electro-acoustic inverse problem without assumptions on the presence of critical points. These results show that the Lipschitz stability far from the critical points deteriorates near these points to a logarithmic stability.

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arXiv2015

Determining the potential in a wave equation without a geometric condition. Extension to the heat equation

We prove a logarithmic stability estimate for the inverse problem of determining the potential in a wave equation from boundary measurements obtained by varying the first component of the initial condition. The novelty of the present work is that no geometric condition is imposed to the sub-boundary where the measurements are made. Our results improve those obtained by the first and second authors in [2]. We also show how the analysis for the wave equation can be adapted to an inverse coefficient problem for the heat equation

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arXiv2012

Inverse diffusion from knowledge of power densities

This paper concerns the reconstruction of a diffusion coefficient in an elliptic equation from knowledge of several power densities. The power density is the product of the diffusion coefficient with the square of the modulus of the gradient of the elliptic solution. The derivation of such internal functionals comes from perturbing the medium of interest by acoustic (plane) waves, which results in small changes in the diffusion coefficient. After appropriate asymptotic expansions and (Fourier) transformation, this allow us to construct the power density of the equation point-wise inside the domain. Such a setting finds applications in ultrasound modulated electrical impedance tomography and ultrasound modulated optical tomography. We show that the diffusion coefficient can be uniquely and stably reconstructed from knowledge of a sufficient large number of power densities. Explicit expressions for the reconstruction of the diffusion coefficient are also provided. Such results hold for a large class of boundary conditions for the elliptic equation in the two-dimensional setting. In three dimensions, the results are proved for a more restrictive class of boundary conditions constructed by means of complex geometrical optics solutions.

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