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

Abstract This paper aims to combine the advantages of the Jordan–Moore–Gibson–Thompson equation as an advanced model in nonlinear acoustics with a frequency domain formulation of the forward and inverse problem of acoustic nonlinearity parameter tomography, enabling the multiplication of information by nonlinearity. Our main result is local uniqueness of the space dependent nonlinearity parameter from boundary measurements, which we achieve by linearized uniqueness with an Implicit Function type perturbation argument in appropriately chosen topologies. Moreover, we shortly dwell on the application of a regularized Newton type method for reconstructing the nonlinearity coefficient, whose convergence can be established by means of the linear uniqueness result.