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This article deals with an inverse problem of identifying the fractional order in the 1D time fractional diffusion equation (TFDE in short) using the measurement at one space-time point. Based on the expression of the solution to the…

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In this paper we prove the well-posedness of non-autonomous deterministic and stochastic reaction-diffusion equations with a polynomial reaction term. Concerning the stochastic problem, we also prove a new result on the space-time…

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In this work, an inverse problem in the fractional diffusion equation with random source is considered. The measurements used are the statistical moments of the realizations of single point data $u(x_0,t,\omega).$ We build the…

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This paper investigates an inverse source problem for space-time fractional diffusion equations from a posteriori interior measurements. The uniqueness result is established by the memory effect of fractional derivatives and the unique…

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We prove the uniqueness for an inverse problem of determining a matrix coefficient $P(x)$ of a system of evolution equations $\sigma \ppp_t u = \ppp_x^2 u(t,x) - P(x) u(t,x)$ for $0<x<\ell$ and $0<t<T$, where $\ell>0$ and $T>0$ are…

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We consider a fractional diffusion equations of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ whose source term is singular in time: $(\partial_t^\alpha+A)u(x,t)=\mu(t)f(x)$, $(x,t)\in\Omega\times(0,T)$, where $\mu$ belongs to a Sobolev space of negative order.…

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In this paper, we prove the local uniqueness of an inverse problem arising in the nonstationary flow of a nonhomogeneous incompressible asymmetric fluid in a bounded domain with smooth boundary. The direct problem is an initial-boundary…

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