Abstract

In this article we deal with a class of geometric inverse problem for bottom detection by one single measurement on the free surface in water-waves. We found upper and lower bounds for the size of the region enclosed between two different bottoms, in terms of Neumann and/or Dirichlet data on the free surface. Starting from the general water-waves system in bounded domains with side walls, we manage to formulate the problem in terms of the Dirichlet to Neumann operator and thus, as an elliptic problem in a bounded domain with Neumann homogeneous condition on the rigid boundary. Then we study the properties of the Dirichlet to Neumann map and analyze the called method of size estimation.