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This paper is concerned with the mathematical analysis of the inverse random source problem for the time fractional diffusion equation, where the source is assumed to be driven by a fractional Brownian motion. Given the random source, the…

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This article proves the uniqueness for two kinds of inverse problems of identifying fractional orders in diffusion equations with multiple time-fractional derivatives by pointwise observation. By means of eigenfunction expansion and Laplace…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Zhiyuan Li , Masahiro Yamamoto

In the present work, we consider the Cauchy problem for the time fractional diffusion equation involving the general Caputo-type differential operator proposed by Kochubei. First, the existence, the positivity and the long time behavior of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Chung-Sik Sin

Inverse problem to determine simultaneously a general space- and time-dependent source and an initial state in a fractional diffusion equation from an {\it a posteriori} measurement of the normal derivative of the state on a portion of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Jaan Janno

We study the inverse problem of recovering a spatially dependent variable order in a time-fractional diffusion model from the boundary flux measurement generated by a single boundary excitation. It arises in the identification of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jiho Hong , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian

We study a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving a parabolic equation with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative of orders $s \in (0,1)$ and $\gamma \in (0,1]$, respectively. The spatial fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-02 Harbir Antil , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

Inverse problem for multi-term fractional parabolic equation in two dimensional space, involving m + 1 Caputo fractional derivatives in time, is investigated. Presence of nonlocal boundary conditions leads to a non-self-adjoint spectral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Muhammad Ali , Sara Aziz

In this work, we investigate a unique solvability of a direct and inverse source problem for a time-fractional partial differential equation with the Caputo and Bessel operators. Using spectral expansion method, we give explicit forms of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Praveen Agarwal , Erkinjon Karimov , Murat Mamchuev , Michael Ruzhansky

In this paper, we study both the direct and inverse random source problems associated with the multi-term time-fractional diffusion-wave equation driven by a fractional Brownian motion. Regarding the direct problem, the well-posedness is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Xiaoli Feng , Qiang Yao , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

A class of inverse problems for restoring the right-hand side of a parabolic equation for a large class of positive operators with discrete spectrum is considered. The results on existence and uniqueness of solutions of these problems as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Michael Ruzhansky , Niyaz Tokmagambetov , Berikbol T. Torebek

In this paper, we consider two linear inverse problems for the time-fractional wave equation, assuming that its right-hand side takes the separable form $f(t)h(x)$, where $t \geq 0$ and $x \in \Omega \subset R^N $. The objective is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Durdiev Durdimurod Kalandarovich

In this paper we study the inverse problem of identifying a source or an initial state in a time-fractional diffusion equation from the knowledge of a single boundary measurement. We derive logarithmic stability estimates for both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Yavar Kian , Eric Soccorsi , Faouzi Triki

In this paper, we are interested in the study of a problem with fractional derivatives having boundary conditions of integral types. The problem represents a Caputo type advection-diffusion equation where the fractional order derivative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Saadoune Brahimi , Ahcene Merad , Adem Kilicman

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.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

We analyze a nonlocal diffusion operator having as special cases the fractional Laplacian and fractional differential operators that arise in several applications. In our analysis, a nonlocal vector calculus is exploited to define a weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-28 Marta D'Elia , Max Gunzburger

We study one-sided nonlocal equations of the form $$\int_{x_0}^\infty\frac{u(x)-u(x_0)}{(x-x_0)^{1+\alpha}} dx=f(x_0),$$ on the real line. Notice that to compute this nonlocal operator of order $0<\alpha<1$ at a point $x_0$ we need to know…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-22 A. Bernardis , F. J. Martín-Reyes , P. R. Stinga , J. L. Torrea

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem on determining an orbit of the moving source in a fractional diffusion(-wave) equations in a connected bounded domain of $\mathbb R^d$ or in the whole space $\mathbb R^d$. Based on a newly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Guanghui Hu , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this article we study an inverse problem for the space-time fractional parabolic operator $(\partial_t-\Delta)^s+Q$ with $0<s<1$ in any space dimension. We uniquely determine the unknown bounded potential $Q$ from infinitely many…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Ru-Yu Lai , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Angkana Rüland

We study a porous medium equation, with nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. We pose the problem in n-dimensional space for all t>0 with bounded and compactly supported initial data, and prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Luis A. Caffarelli , Juan L. Vazquez

This is a study of a class of nonlocal nonlinear diffusion equations. We present a strong maximum principle for nonlocal time-dependent Dirichlet problems. Results are for bounded functions of space, rather than (semi)-continuous functions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Ravi Shankar , Tucker Hartland