A Bayesian method for an inverse transmission scattering problem in acoustics

Abstract

In this paper, we study an inverse transmission scattering problem of a time-harmonic acoustic wave from the viewpoint of Bayesian statistics. In Bayesian inversion, the solution of the inverse problem is the posterior distribution of the unknown parameters conditioned on the observational data. The shape of the scatterer will be reconstructed from full-aperture and limited-aperture far-field measurement data. We first prove a well-posedness result for the posterior distribution in the sense of the Hellinger metric. Then, we employ the Markov chain Monte Carlo method based on the preconditioned Crank-Nicolson algorithm to extract the posterior distribution information. Numerical results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords:

• Inverse transmission scattering problem
• Bayesian inversion
• the Markov chain Monte Carlo method

2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications:

• 78A46
• 62F15
• 65N21

Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grants No.11771068 and No.11501087.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grants Nos. 11771068 and 11501087.