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We establish new Carleman estimates for the wave equation, which we then apply to derive novel observability inequalities for a general class of linear wave equations. The main features of these inequalities are that (a) they apply to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Arick Shao

We study time-dependent acoustic and electromagnetic waves governed by the scalar wave equation or Maxwell's equations in a bounded three-dimensional domain. We establish the existence of time-dependent boundary excitations that can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Roland Griesmaier , Soumen Senapati

Wave-breaking is studied analytically first and the results are compared with accurate numerical simulations of 3D wave-breaking. We focus on the time dependence of various quantities becoming singular at the onset of breaking. The power…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Pomeau , M. Le Berre , P. Guyenne , S. Grilli

This paper is devoted to the study of periodic (in time) solutions to an one-dimensional semilinear wave equation with $x$-dependent coefficients under various homogeneous boundary conditions. Such a model arises from the forced vibrations…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Hui Wei , Shuguan Ji

The wave equation $\left(\partial_{tt} - c^2 \Delta_x\right) u(x,t) = e^{-t} f(x,t)$ is shown to have a unique solution if $u$ and its partial derivatives in $x$ are in $L^2(e^{-t})$ on the cone, and the solution can be explicit given in…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Sheehan Olver , Yuan Xu

The aim of the paper is to study the problem $$ \begin{cases} u_{tt}-\Delta u+P(x,u_t)=f(x,u) \qquad &\text{in $(0,\infty)\times\Omega$,} u=0 &\text{on $(0,\infty)\times \Gamma_0$,} u_{tt}+\partial_\nu u-\Delta_\Gamma…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Enzo Vitillaro

This article addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering both the wave speed coefficient and an unknown initial condition (acting as the source) for the multidimensional wave equation from a single passive boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yavar Kian , Hongyu Liu

We consider the large time behavior of solutions to the following nonlinear wave equation: $\partial_{t}^2 u = c(u)^{2}\partial^2_x u + \lambda c(u)c'(u)(\partial_x u)^2$ with the parameter $\lambda \in [0,2]$. If $c(u(0,x))$ is bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-05 Yuusuke Sugiyama

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 discuss the identification of a time-dependent potential in a time-fractional diffusion model from a boundary measurement taken at a single point. Theoretically, we establish a conditional Lipschitz stability for this inverse problem.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Siyu Cen , Kwancheol Shin , Zhi Zhou

For a wave equation with pure delay, we study an inhomogeneous initial-boundary value problem in a bounded 1D domain. Under smoothness assumptions, we prove unique existence of classical solutions for any given finite time horizon and give…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Denys Khusainov , Michael Pokojovy , Elvin Azizbayov

In this article, we consider the inverse problems of determining the damping coefficient appearing in the wave equation. We prove the unique determination of the coefficient from the data coming from a single coincident source-receiver…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-24 Manmohan Vashisth

We add a time-dependent potential to the inhomogeneous wave equation and consider the task of reconstructing this potential from measurements of the wave field. This dynamic inverse problem becomes more involved compared to static…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Thies Gerken , Armin Lechleiter

We study the asymptotics of the Schr\"odinger equation with time-dependent potential in dimension one. Assuming that the potential decays sufficiently rapidly as $|x| \to \infty$, we prove that the solution can be written as the sum of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Gavin Stewart , Avy Soffer

We consider the inverse problem of determining different type of information about a diffusion process, described by ordinary or fractional diffusion equations stated on a bounded domain, like the density of the medium or the velocity field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Yavar Kian , Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

The key questions of uniqueness and existence in time-dependent density functional theory are usually formulated only for potentials and densities that are analytic in time. Simple examples, standard in quantum mechanics, lead however to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Neepa T. Maitra , Tchavdar N. Todorov , Chris Woodward , Kieron Burke

We prove local unique solvability of the wave equation for a large class of weakly singular, locally bounded space-time metrics in a suitable space of generalised functions.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-11 James D. E. Grant , Eberhard Mayerhofer , Roland Steinbauer

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

We consider inverse problems for a Westervelt equation with a strong damping and a time-dependent potential $q$. We first prove that all boundary measurements, including the initial data, final data, and the lateral boundary measurements,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Li Li , Yang Zhang

We consider fractional diffusion equations and study the stability of the inverse problem of determining the time-dependent parameter in a source term or a coefficient of zero-th order term from observations of the solution at one point in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Kenichi Fujishiro , Yavar Kian