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This paper addresses the inverse source problem for a mixed-type fractional wave-diffusion-wave equation posed in a cylindrical domain. The governing equation involves a time-dependent variable-order fractional derivative, which enables the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Erkinjon Karimov , Muzaffar Toshpulatov

We study inverse source problems associated to semilinear elliptic equations of the form \[ \Delta u(x)+a(x,u)=F(x), \] on a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$. We show that it is possible to use nonlinearity to break…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Tony Liimatainen , Yi-Hsuan Lin

In this paper, we investigate the direct and linear inverse problems of identifying time-dependent and time-independent source terms in a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation, using measured data at an interior point of the time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Rahmonov Askar Ahmadovich

This paper addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering multiple unknown parameters for semilinear wave equations from boundary measurements. We consider an initial-boundary value problem for a wave equation with a general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Dong Qiu , Xiang Xu , Yeqiong Ye , Ting Zhou

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-16 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

We consider inverse problems for wave, heat and Schr\"odinger-type operators and corresponding spectral problems on domains of ${\bf R}^n$ and compact manifolds. Also, we study inverse problems where coefficients of partial differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Katchalov , Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Niculae Mandache

We consider an inverse problem of recovering a potential associated to a semi-linear wave equation with a quadratic nonlinearity in $1 + 1$ dimensions. We develop a numerical scheme to determine the potential from a noisy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Teemu Tyni

This article studies the inverse problem of recovering a nonlinearity in an elliptic equation $\Delta u + a(x,u) = 0$ from boundary measurements of solutions. Previous results based on first order linearization achieve this under a sign…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 David Johansson , Janne Nurminen , Mikko Salo

In this paper, we discuss the inverse problem for a mixed Li\'enard type nonlinear oscillator equation $\ddot{x}+f(x)\dot{x}^2+g(x)\dot{x}+h(x)=0$, where $f(x),\,g(x)$ and $h(x)$ are arbitrary functions of $x$. Very recently, we have…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-03-25 Ajey K. Tiwari , S. N. Pandey , V. K. Chandrasekar , M. Senthilvelan , M. Lakshmanan

Consider a broken geodesics $\alpha([0,l])$ on a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with boundary of dimension $n\geq 3$. The broken geodesics are unions of two geodesics with the property that they have a common end point. Assume that for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

In this paper, we investigate an inverse random source problem concerned with recovering the strength of a random, uncorrelated acoustic source from correlation measurements of emitted time-harmonic acoustic waves. Such problems arise in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Philipp Mickan , Thorsten Hohage

We are concerned with semilinear parabolic equations, with a time-dependent source term of the form $h(t)u^q$ with $q>1$, posed on an infinite graph. We assume that the bottom of the $L^2$-spectrum of the Laplacian on the graph, denoted by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Fabio Punzo , Alessandro Sacco

We study the recovery of a spatially dependent source in a one-dimensional space-time fractional wave equation using boundary measurement data collected at a single endpoint. The main challenge arises from the fact that the eigenfunctions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Kuang Huang , Zhiyuan Li , Zhidong Zhang , Zhi Zhou

This paper investigates inverse source problems for time-dependent electromagnetic waves governed by Maxwell's equations. After applying the Fourier transform with respect to time, the problem leads to a frequency-domain electromagnetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Fenglin Sun , Hongxia Guo

Inverse problem to recover simultaneously a scalar coefficient, order of a time-fractional derivative, parameters of multiterm fractional Laplacian and a time-dependent source term occurring in a superdiffusion equation from measurements…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Hany Gerges , Jaan Janno

An inverse problem of wave propagation into a weakly laterally inhomogeneous medium occupying a half-space is considered in the acoustic approximation. The half-space consists of an upper layer and a semi-infinite bottom separated with an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Blagovestchenskii , Y. Kurylev , V. Zalipaev

This paper concerns the inverse source problem for the time-harmonic wave equation in a one dimensional domain. The goal is to determine the source function from the boundary measurements. The problem is challenging due to complexity of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Elham Sohrabi

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

We consider two phaseless inverse problems for elliptic equation. The statements of these problems differ from have considered. Namely, instead of given information about modulus of scattering waves, we consider the information related to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-31 V. G. Romanov , M. Yamamoto

We extend the recent study of inverse problems for minimal surfaces by considering the inverse source problem for the prescribed mean curvature equation \begin{equation*} \nabla \cdot \left[ \frac{\nabla u}{(1 + |\nabla u|^2)^{1/2}} \right]…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Tony Liimatainen , Janne Nurminen