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math.AP2026

On the Jordan-Moore-Gibson-Thompson equation of nonlinear acoustics

Barbara Kaltenbacher

The JMGT equation was put forward by Pedro Jordan~\cite{jordan2008nonlinear,jordan2014second}, also referring to earlier work by Moore and Gibson~\cite{moore1960propagation}, as we…

math.AP2025

Imaging nonlinearity coefficient and sound speed with the JMGT equation in frequency domain

Barbara Kaltenbacher

In this paper we prove uniqueness and stability of reconstruction of two coefficients (sound speed and nonlinearity parameter) in the Jordan-Moore-Gibson-Thompson JMGT equation of…

math.AP2025

On uniqueness of coefficient identification in the Bloch-Torrey equation for magnetic resonance imaging

Barbara Kaltenbacher

In this paper we provide some uniqueness results for the (multi-)coefficient identification problem of reconstructing the spatially varying spin density as well as the spin-lattice…

math.AP2025

Forward and Inverse Problems in Nonlinear Acoustics

Barbara Kaltenbacher

The importance of ultrasound is well established in the imaging of human tissue. In order to enhance image quality by exploiting nonlinear effects, recently techniques such as harm…

math.AP2025

Acoustic nonlinearity parameter tomography with the Jordan-Moore-Gibson-Thompson equation in frequency domain

Barbara Kaltenbacher

This paper aims to combine the advantages of the Jordan-Moore-Gibson-Thompson JMGT equation as an advanced model in nonlinear acoustics with a frequency domain formulation of the f…

math.AP2024

Well-posedness of the time-periodic Jordan-Moore-Gibson-Thompson equation

Barbara Kaltenbacher

Motivated by applications of nonlinear ultrasonics under continuous wave excitation, we study the Jordan-Moore-Gibson-Thompson (JMGT) equation -- a third order in time quasilinear…

math.AP2024★ 1 cited

Existence, uniqueness, and numerical solutions of the nonlinear periodic Westervelt equation

Benjamin Rainer, Barbara Kaltenbacher

In this paper, we study the nonlinear periodic Westervelt equation with excitations located within a bounded domain in , where , subject to Robin bound…

math.AP2024

Existence of solutions to k-Wave models of nonlinear ultrasound propagation in biological tissue

Ben Cox, Barbara Kaltenbacher, Vanja Nikolić +1

We investigate models for nonlinear ultrasound propagation in soft biological tissue based on the one that serves as the core for the software package k-Wave. The systems are solve…

math.AP2024

A first order in time wave equation modeling nonlinear acoustics

Barbara Kaltenbacher, Pascal Lehner

In this paper we focus on a small amplitude approximation of a Navier-Stokes-Fourier system modeling nonlinear acoustics. Omitting all third and higher order terms with respect to…

math.AP2023

The Kuznetsov and Blackstock equations of nonlinear acoustics with nonlocal-in-time dissipation

B. Kaltenbacher, M. Meliani, V. Nikolić

In ultrasonics, nonlocal quasilinear wave equations arise when taking into account a class of heat flux laws of Gurtin--Pipkin type within the system of governing equations of soun…