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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…

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The 1D Cauchy problem for the Zakharov system is shown to be locally well-posed for low regularity Schr\"odinger data u_0 \in \hat{H^{k,p}} and wave data (n_0,n_1) \in \hat{H^{l,p}} \times \hat{H^{l-1,p}} under certain assumptions on the…

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This paper is concerned with an inverse obstacle problem for the Laplace's equation. The aim is to recover the constant conductivity coefficient in the equation and the boundary of a Dirichlet polygonal obstacle from a single pair of Cauchy…

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A novel approach to full waveform inversion (FWI), based on a data driven reduced order model (ROM) of the wave equation operator is introduced. The unknown medium is probed with pulses and the time domain pressure waveform data is recorded…

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Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is an advanced geophysical inversion technique. In fields such as oil exploration and geology, FWI is used for providing images of subsurface structures with higher resolution. The conventional algorithm…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-11-06 Jiahang Li , Hitoshi Mikada , Junichi Takekawa

For an ill-posed inverse problem, particularly with incomplete and limited measurement data, regularization is an essential tool for stabilizing the inverse problem. Among various forms of regularization, the lp penalty term provides a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Jihun Han , Yoonsang Lee

The study of resonances (and well-posedness) for complex systems under time-periodic loading is of broad interest in application. The work of Galdi et al.~(2014) connects asymptotic stability of solutions to an unforced Cauchy problem to…

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This paper analyzes inverse scattering for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in the case where the wave speed is piecewise constant. Scattering data recorded for an arbitrarily small interval of frequencies is shown to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sophia Bugarija , Peter C. Gibson , Guanghui Hu , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

We consider the problem of computing the initial condition for a general parabolic equation from the Cauchy lateral data. The stability of this problem is well-known to be logarithmic. In this paper, we introduce an approximate model, as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Qitong Li , Loc H. Nguyen

In this paper we prove an optimal local well-posedness result for the 1+2 dimensional system of nonlinear wave equations (NLW) with quadratic null-form derivative nonlinearities $Q_{\mu\nu}$. The Cauchy problem for these equations is known…

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This paper aims to investigate the Cauchy problem for the semilinear damped wave equation for the fractional sub-Laplacian $(-\mathcal{L}_{\mathbb{H}})^{\alpha}$, $\alpha>0$ on the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^{n}$ with power type…

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We consider the Cauchy problem for an equation of the form \partial_t+\partial_x^3)u=F(u,u_x,u_{xx}) where F is a polynomial with no constant or linear terms and no quadratic uu_{xx} term. For a polynomial nonlinearity with no quadratic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a challenging, ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem that requires robust regularization techniques to stabilize the solution and yield geologically meaningful results, especially when dealing with sparse…

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We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing inhomogeneities by performing a finite number of scattering measurements of acoustic type in the time-harmonic setting. We set up the reconstruction as a fully discrete variational problem…

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This paper is concerned with the multi-frequency factorization method for imaging the support of a wave-number-dependent source function. It is supposed that the source function is given by the inverse Fourier transform of some…

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In this paper, we consider the well-posedness for the Cauchy problem of the Kawahara equation with low regularity data in the periodic case. We obtain the local well-posedness for $s \geq -3/2$ by a variant of the Fourier restriction norm…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Takamori Kato

In this paper we investigate the following fractional order in time Cauchy problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \mathbb{D}_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)+Au(t)=f(u(t)), & 1<\alpha <2, u(0)=u_{0},\,\,\,u^{\prime }(0)=u_{1}. & \end{cases}%…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Edgardo Alvarez , Ciprian Gal , Valentin Keyantuo , Mahamadi Warma

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an advanced technique for reconstructing high-resolution subsurface physical parameters by progressively minimizing the discrepancy between observed and predicted seismic data. However, conventional FWI…

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