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Partial differential equations are ubiquitous in almost all applications of mathematics, where they provide a natural mathematical description of many phenomena involving change in physical, chemical, biological, and social processes. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-07 John M. Ball , Gui-Qiang G. Chen

An inverse problem for a stationary heat transfer process is studied for a totally isolated bar on its lateral surface, of negligible diameter, made up of two consecutive sections of different, isotropic and homogeneous materials. At the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Guillermo Federico Umbricht , Diana Rubio , Domingo Alberto Tarzia

We study spatially semidiscrete and fully discrete finite volume element methods for the homogeneous heat equation with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and derive error estimates for smooth and nonsmooth initial data. We show that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-17 P. Chatzipantelidis , R. D. Lazarov , V. Thomee

Accurate characterization of entropy plays a pivotal role in capturing reversible and irreversible heating in supercapacitors during charging/discharging cycles. However, numerical methods that can faithfully capture entropy variation in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Jie Ding , Xiang Ji , Shenggao Zhou

We are concerned with the inverse problem of determining both the potential and the damping coefficient in a dissipative wave equation from boundary measurements. We establish stability estimates of logarithmic type when the measurements…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Kaïs Ammari , Mourad Choulli

This report concerns the inverse problem of estimating a spacially dependent coefficient of a partial differential equation from observations of the solution at the boundary. Such a problem can be formulated as an optimal control problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-09-23 Jesper Carlsson

We investigate the initial-boundary value problem for one-dimensional compressible, heat-conductive, non-resistive MHD equations of viscous, ideal polytropic fluids in the Lagrangian coordinates. The existence and Lipschitz continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Yang Li , Yongzhong Sun

In this paper, we observe how the heat equation in a non-cylindrical domain can arise as the asymptotic limit of a parabolic problem in a cylindrical domain, by adding a potential that vanishes outside the limit domain. This can be seen as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Pablo Àlvarez-Caudevilla , Matthieu Bonnivard , Antoine Lemenant

We present a novel approach to the parallelization of the parabolic fast multipole method for a space-time boundary element method for the heat equation. We exploit the special temporal structure of the involved operators to provide an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Raphael Watschinger , Michal Merta , Günther Of , Jan Zapletal

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for the heat equation with a nonsmooth coefficient of conductivity which models the displacement of a moving body inside a nonhomogeneous background. We prove the uniqueness of the moving…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Olivier Poisson

This paper concerns an inverse elastic scattering problem which is to determine a rigid obstacle from time domain scattered field data for a single incident plane wave. By using Helmholtz decomposition, we reduce the initial-boundary value…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Lu Zhao , Heping Dong , Fuming Ma

We study the enclosure method for the p-Calder\'on problem, which is a nonlinear generalization of the inverse conductivity problem due to Calder\'on that involves the p-Laplace equation. The method allows one to reconstruct the convex hull…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Tommi Brander , Manas Kar , Mikko Salo

Marine heat flow data, obtained with a Lister-type probe, consists of two temperature decay curves, frictional and heat pulse decay. Both follow the same physical model of a cooling cylinder. The mathematical model describing the decays is…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Andreas Hartmann , Heinrich Villinger

In recent work, we used pseudo-differential theory to establish conditions that the initial-boundary value problem for second order systems of wave equations be strongly well-posed in a generalized sense. The applications included the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 H. -O. Kreiss , O. Reula , O. Sarbach , J. Winicour

In this note we describe a space-time boundary element discretization of the heat equation and an efficient and robust preconditioning strategy which is based on the use of boundary integral operators of opposite orders, but which requires…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Stefan Dohr , Olaf Steinbach

Solution of Helmholtz equation with impedance boundary condition on finite interval is equivalently reformulated as steady state of initial boundary value problem for first order hyperbolic system of partial differential equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Ramaz Botchorishvili , Tamar Janelidze

We embed general boundary value problems for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations into the elliptic boundary value theory. This is achieved by introducing two new scalar functions to the electromagnetic field and imposing additional boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yuri A. Godin , Boris Vainberg

In this paper we develop an artificial initial boundary value problem for the high-order heat equation in a bounded domain $\Omega$. It is found an unique classical solution of this problem in an explicit form and shown that the solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-07 Durvudkhan Suragan , Niyaz Tokmagambetov

In this paper, we propose novel proper orthogonal decomposition (POD)--based model reduction methods that effectively address the issue of inverse crime in solving parabolic inverse problems. Both the inverse initial value problems and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Wenlong Zhang , Zhiwen Zhang

An inverse obstacle problem governed by the Stokes system in the time domain is considered. Two types of extraction formulae about the geometry of an unknown obstacle are given by using the most recent version of the time domain enclosure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Masaru Ikehata