Abstract: This paper is concerned with inverse acoustic scattering in an inhomogeneous medium with a conductive boundary condition and the unknown buried impenetrable objects inside. Using a variational approach, we establish the well-posedness of the direct problem. For the inverse problem, we shall numerically reconstruct the inhomogeneous medium from the far-field data for different kinds of cases. For the case when a Dirichlet boundary condition is imposed on the buried object, the classical factorization method proposed in [2] is justified as valid for reconstructing the inhomogeneous medium from the far-field data. For the case when a Neumann boundary condition is imposed on the buried object, the classical factorization method of [1] cannot be applied directly, since the middle operator of the factorization of the far-field operator is only compact. In this case, we develop a modified factorization method to locate the inhomogeneous medium with a conductive boundary condition and the unknown buried objects. Some numerical experiments are provided to demonstrate the practicability of the inversion algorithms developed.

Key words: inverse acoustic scattering, factorization method, numerical reconstruction, inhomogeneous medium