Quantifying uncertainty in inverse scattering problems set in layered environments

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Hauptverfasser: Abugattas, Carolina, Carpio, Ana, Cebrián, Elena, Oleaga, Gerardo
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author Abugattas, Carolina
Carpio, Ana
Cebrián, Elena
Oleaga, Gerardo
author_facet Abugattas, Carolina
Carpio, Ana
Cebrián, Elena
Oleaga, Gerardo
contents The attempt to solve inverse scattering problems often leads to optimization and sampling problems that require handling moderate to large amounts of partial differential equations acting as constraints. We focus here on determining inclusions in a layered medium from the measurement of wave fields on the surface, while quantifying uncertainty and addressing the effect of wave solver quality. Inclusions are characterized by a few parameters describing their material properties and shapes. We devise algorithms to estimate the most likely configurations by optimizing cost functionals with Bayesian regularizations and wave constraints. In particular, we design an automatic Levenberg-Marquardt-Fletcher type scheme based on the use of algorithmic differentiation and adaptive finite element meshes for time dependent wave equation constraints with changing inclusions. In synthetic tests with a single frequency, this scheme converges in few iterations for increasing noise levels. To attain a global view of other possible high probability configurations and asymmetry effects we resort to parallelizable affine invariant Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, at the cost of solving a few million wave problems. This forces the use of prefixed meshes. While the optimal configurations remain similar, we encounter additional high probability inclusions influenced by the prior information, the noise level and the layered structure, effect that can be reduced by considering more frequencies. We analyze the effect on the calculations of working with adaptive and fixed meshes, under a simple choice of non-reflecting boundary conditions in truncated layered domains for which we establish wellposedness and convergence results.
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spellingShingle Quantifying uncertainty in inverse scattering problems set in layered environments
Abugattas, Carolina
Carpio, Ana
Cebrián, Elena
Oleaga, Gerardo
Numerical Analysis
Optimization and Control
Computational Physics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Geophysics
The attempt to solve inverse scattering problems often leads to optimization and sampling problems that require handling moderate to large amounts of partial differential equations acting as constraints. We focus here on determining inclusions in a layered medium from the measurement of wave fields on the surface, while quantifying uncertainty and addressing the effect of wave solver quality. Inclusions are characterized by a few parameters describing their material properties and shapes. We devise algorithms to estimate the most likely configurations by optimizing cost functionals with Bayesian regularizations and wave constraints. In particular, we design an automatic Levenberg-Marquardt-Fletcher type scheme based on the use of algorithmic differentiation and adaptive finite element meshes for time dependent wave equation constraints with changing inclusions. In synthetic tests with a single frequency, this scheme converges in few iterations for increasing noise levels. To attain a global view of other possible high probability configurations and asymmetry effects we resort to parallelizable affine invariant Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, at the cost of solving a few million wave problems. This forces the use of prefixed meshes. While the optimal configurations remain similar, we encounter additional high probability inclusions influenced by the prior information, the noise level and the layered structure, effect that can be reduced by considering more frequencies. We analyze the effect on the calculations of working with adaptive and fixed meshes, under a simple choice of non-reflecting boundary conditions in truncated layered domains for which we establish wellposedness and convergence results.
title Quantifying uncertainty in inverse scattering problems set in layered environments
topic Numerical Analysis
Optimization and Control
Computational Physics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Geophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05776