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We consider an inverse problem for a Westervelt type nonlinear wave equation with fractional damping. This equation arises in nonlinear acoustic imaging, and we show the forward problem is locally well-posed. We prove that the smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Li Li , Yang Zhang

This paper is dedicated to addressing the simultaneous inversion problem involving the initial value and space-dependent source term in a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation. Firstly, we establish the uniqueness of the inverse problem…

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In this paper, we study an inverse problem for identifying the initial value in a space-time fractional diffusion equation from the final time data. We show the identifiability of this inverse problem by proving the existence of its unique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Mohamed BenSalah , Salih Tatar

We investigate the inverse problem of recovering an initial source for the wave equation with fractional attenuation, motivated by photoacoustic tomography (PAT). The attenuation is modeled by a Caputo fractional derivative of order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Sebastian Acosta , Benjamin Palacios

We study a wave equation with a nonlocal time fractional damping term that models the effects of acoustic attenuation characterized by a frequency dependence power law. First we prove existence of a unique solution to this equation with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Katherine Baker , Lehel Banjai

The numerical analysis of time fractional evolution equations with the second-order elliptic operator including general time-space dependent variable coefficients is challenging, especially when the classical weak initial singularities are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Pin Lyu , Seakweng Vong

This paper proposes a new and efficient numerical algorithm for recovering the damping coefficient from the spectrum of a damped wave operator, which is a classical Borg-Levinson inverse spectral problem. The algorithm is based on inverting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Gang Bao , Xiang Xu , Jian Zhai

This work addresses an inverse reconstruction task for a time-fractional pseudo-parabolic model with a temporally varying coefficient. By imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions, we aim to recover the unknown initial state from observations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Arshyn Altybay

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

Seismic traveltime tomography represents a popular and useful tool for unravelling the structure of the subsurface across the scales. In this work we address the case where the forward model is represented by the eikonal equation and derive…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Andrea Zunino , Scott Keating , Andreas Fichtner

In this work, our aim is to reconstruct the unknown initial value from terminal data. We develop a numerical framework on nonuniform time grids for fractional wave equations under the lower regularity assumptions. Then, we introduce a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Dakang Cen , Zhiyuan Li , Wenlong Zhang

Tracer tests in natural porous media sometimes show abnormalities that suggest considering a fractional variant of the Advection Diffusion Equation supplemented by a time derivative of non-integer order. We are describing an inverse method…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-30 Boris Maryshev , Alain Cartalade , Christelle Latrille , Marie-Christine Néel

Locally refined meshes impose severe stability constraints on explicit time-stepping methods for the numerical simulation of time dependent wave phenomena. Local time-stepping methods overcome that bottleneck by using smaller time-steps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-19 Marcus Grote , Teodora Mitkova

We establish a direct link between the time-reversal technique and the so-called adjoint method for imaging. Using this relationship, we derive new solution strategies for an inverse problem which arises in telecommunication. These…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oliver Dorn

We develop an adjoint approach for recovering the topographical function included in the source term of one-dimensional hyperbolic balance laws. We focus on a specific system, namely the shallow water equations, in an effort to recover the…

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In this paper, we numerically address the inverse problem of identifying a time-dependent coefficient in the time-fractional diffusion equation. An a priori estimate is established to ensure uniqueness and stability of the solution. A fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Arshyn Altybay

In this work, we propose an observation system based on the available data which solution is one-be-one mapping to the forward problem(with the unknown initial function) solution. It implies their solutions share the same linear structure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Dakang Cen , Zhiyuan Li , Wenlong Zhang

In this article, we are concerned with the analysis on the numerical reconstruction of the spatial component in the source term of a time-fractional diffusion equation. This ill-posed problem is solved through a stabilized nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Daijun Jiang , Yikan Liu , Dongling Wang

Thermo- and photo- acoustic tomography require reconstructing initial acoustic pressure in a body from time series of pressure measured on a surface surrounding the body. For the classical case of free space wave propagation, various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 B. Holman , L. Kunyansky
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