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Groundwater flow modeling is commonly used to calculate groundwater heads, estimate groundwater flow paths and travel times, and provide insights into solute transport processes within an aquifer. However, the values of input parameters…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Emily A. Baker , Sauro Manenti , Alessandro Reali , Giancarlo Sangalli , Lorenzo Tamellini , Sara Todeschini

Bayesian inversion is central to the quantification of uncertainty within problems arising from numerous applications in science and engineering. To formulate the approach, four ingredients are required: a forward model mapping the unknown…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-15 O. Deniz Akyildiz , Mark Girolami , Andrew M. Stuart , Arnaud Vadeboncoeur

We consider the spreading of a thin two-dimensional droplet on a solid substrate. We use a model for viscous fluids where the evolution is governed by Darcy's Law. At the triple point where air and liquid meet the solid substrate, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Hans Knüpfer , Nader Masmoudi

We consider the inverse shape and parameter problem for detecting corrosion from partial boundary measurements. This problem models the non-destructive testing for a partially buried object from electrostatic measurements on the accessible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Isaac Harris , Andreas Kleefeld , Heejin Lee

We have established previously, in a lead-in study, that the spreading of liquids in particulate porous media at low saturation levels, characteristically less than 10% of the void space, has very distinctive features in comparison to that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-21 Penpark Sirimark , Alex V. Lukyanov , Tristan Pryer

Modern applications routinely collect high-dimensional data, leading to statistical models having more parameters than there are samples available. A common solution is to impose sparsity in parameter estimation, often using penalized…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-08 Paolo Onorati , David B. Dunson , Antonio Canale

We investigate solution methods for large-scale inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) via Bayesian inference. The Bayesian framework provides a statistical setting to infer uncertain parameters from noisy…

Applications · Statistics 2023-02-08 Mina Karimi , Mehrdad Massoudi , Kaushik Dayal , Matteo Pozzi

A problem of a wave identification is formulated. An example is considered in conditions of one-dimensional Cauchy problem for conventional string equation in matrix form and its inhomogeneous two-component version. The acoustic and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Sergey Leble , Irina Vereshchagina

Bi-log-concavity of probability measures is a univariate extension of the notion of log-concavity that has been recently proposed in a statistical literature. Among other things, it has the nice property from a modelisation perspective to…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Adrien Saumard

We consider the linear elliptic systems or equations in divergence form with periodically oscillating coefficients. We prove the large-scale boundary Lipschitz estimate for the weak solutions in domains satisfying the so-called…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Jinping Zhuge

In this article, we consider the solution to elliptic diffusion problems on a class of random domains obtained by log-Gaussian random homothety of the unit disk respectively an annulus. We model the problem under consideration and verify…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Dinh Dũng , Helmut Harbrecht , Van Kien Nguyen , Christoph Schwab

Following a recent paper by N. Mandache (Inverse Problems 17 (2001), pp. 1435-1444), we establish a general procedure for determining the instability character of inverse problems. We apply this procedure to many elliptic inverse problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michele Di Cristo , Luca Rondi

In this work we investigate an inverse problem of recovering point sources and their time-dependent strengths from {a posteriori} partial internal measurements in a subdiffusion model which involves a Caputo fractional derivative in time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Kuang Huang , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Georges Sadaka , Zhi Zhou

We study Neumann functions for divergence form, second order elliptic systems with bounded measurable coefficients in a bounded Lipschitz domain or a Lipschitz graph domain. We establish existence, uniqueness, and various estimates for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Jongkeun Choi , Seick Kim

This study addresses the issue of whether or not a normal distribution appropriately represents permeability variations. To do so, (i) the distribution of local fibre volume fraction for each tow is experimentaly determined by estimation of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-13 Masoud Bodaghi , Salimeh Yasaei , Nuno Correia

In this work, we develop a Bayesian framework for solving inverse problems in which the unknown parameter belongs to a space of Radon measures taking values in a separable Hilbert space. The inherent ill-posedness of such problems is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Phuoc-Truong Huynh

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for solving inverse problems, yet prior work has primarily focused on observations with Gaussian measurement noise, restricting their use in real-world scenarios. This limitation persists due…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-11 Alessandro Micheli , Mélodie Monod , Samir Bhatt

Given any closed Riemannian manifold $M$, we construct a reversible diffusion process on the space ${\mathcal P}(M)$ of probability measures on $M$ that is (i) reversible w.r.t.~the entropic measure ${\mathbb P}^\beta$ on ${\mathcal P}(M)$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Karl-Theodor Sturm

We consider the statistical inverse problem of recovering an unknown function $f$ from a linear measurement corrupted by additive Gaussian white noise. We employ a nonparametric Bayesian approach with standard Gaussian priors, for which the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Matteo Giordano , Hanne Kekkonen

In this article, we study a model problem featuring a L\'evy process in a domain with semi-transparent boundary by considering the following perturbed fractional Laplacian operator \[\mathscr{L}_{b,q} := (-\Delta)^t +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Sombuddha Bhattacharyya , Tuhin Ghosh , Gunther Uhlmann