Recovering Density and Speed of Sound Coefficients in the 2D Hyperbolic System of Acoustic Equations of the First Order by a Finite Number of Observations

Abstract

We consider the coefficient inverse problem for the first-order hyperbolic system, which describes the propagation of the 2D acoustic waves in a heterogeneous medium. We recover both the denstity of the medium and the speed of sound by using a finite number of data measurements. We use the second-order MUSCL-Hancock scheme to solve the direct and adjoint problems, and apply optimization scheme to the coefficient inverse problem. The obtained functional is minimized by using the gradient-based approach. We consider different variations of the method in order to obtain the better accuracy and stability of the appoach and present the results of numerical experiments.

Keywords

• acoustics
• tomography
• first-order hyperbolic system
• inverse problem
• Godunov method
• gradient descent method