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Carleman Estimate and Inverse Source Problem for Biot's Equations Describing Wave Propagation in Porous Media

Analysis of PDEs 2015-06-15 v1

Abstract

According to Biot's paper in 1956, by using the Lagrangian equations in classical mechanics, we consider a problem of the filtration of a liquid in porous elastic-deformation media whose mechanical behavior is described by the Lam'e system coupled with a hyperbolic equation. Assuming the null surface displacement on the whole boundary, we discuss an inverse source problem of determining a body force only by observation of surface traction on a suitable subdomain along a sufficiently large time interval. Our main result is a H\"older stability estimate for the inverse source problem, which is proved by a new Carleman estimat for Biot's system.

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@article{arxiv.1304.5695,
  title  = {Carleman Estimate and Inverse Source Problem for Biot's Equations Describing Wave Propagation in Porous Media},
  author = {Mourad Bellassoued and Masahiro Yamamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.5695},
  year   = {2015}
}