# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2013, 7(2): 545-563. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2013.7.545

## Imaging acoustic obstacles by singular and hypersingular point sources

 1 Faculty of Science, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, 518055, China 2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC 28223, United States 3 Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS, Beijing 100190, China 4 Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

Received  September 2012 Revised  October 2012 Published  May 2013

We investigate a qualitative method for imaging acoustic obstacles in two and three dimensions by boundary measurements corresponding to hypersingular point sources. Rigorous mathematical justification of the imaging method is established, and numerical experiments are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed imaging scheme.
Citation: Jingzhi Li, Hongyu Liu, Hongpeng Sun, Jun Zou. Imaging acoustic obstacles by singular and hypersingular point sources. Inverse Problems & Imaging, 2013, 7 (2) : 545-563. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2013.7.545
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