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We consider an anisotropic hyperbolic equation with memory term: $$ \partial_t^2 u(x,t) = \sum_{i,j=1}^n \partial_i(a_{ij}(x)\partial_ju) + \int^t_0 \sum_{| \alpha| \le 2} b_{\alpha}(x,t,\eta)\partial_x^{\alpha}u(x,\eta) d\eta + F(x,t) $$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Paola Loreti , Daniela Sforza , Masahiro Yamamoto

The key tool of this paper is a new Carleman estimate for an arbitrary parabolic operator of the second order for the case of reversed time data. This estimate works on an arbitrary time interval. On the other hand, the previously known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Michael V. Klibanov , Anatoly G. Yagola

We propose a new iterative scheme to compute the numerical solution to an over-determined boundary value problem for a general quasilinear elliptic PDE. The main idea is to repeatedly solve its linearization by using the quasi-reversibility…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Thuy T. Le , Loc H. Nguyen , Hung V. Tran

We consider the inverse problem of determining the initial states or the source term of a hyperbolic equation damped by some non-local time-fractional derivative. This framework is relevant to medical imaging such as thermoacoustic or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Xinchi Huang , Yavar Kian , Eric Soccorsi , Masahiro Yamamoto

We propose a globally convergent computational technique for the nonlinear inverse problem of reconstructing the zero-order coefficient in a parabolic equation using partial boundary data. This technique is called the "reduced dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Ray Abney , Thuy T. Le , Loc H. Nguyen , Cam Peters

We propose a numerical method to solve an inverse source problem of computing the initial condition of hyperbolic equations from the measurements of Cauchy data. This problem arises in thermo- and photo- acoustic tomography in a bounded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Thuy T. Le , Loc H. Nguyen , Thi-Phong Nguyen , William Powell

We prove global Lipschitz stability for inverse source and coefficient problems for first-order linear hyperbolic equations, the coefficients of which depend on both space and time. We use a global Carleman estimate, and a crucial point,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Giuseppe Floridia , Hiroshi Takase

We consider the linear system of viscoelasticity with the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. First we prove a Carleman estimate with boundary values of solutions of viscoelasticity system. Since a solution $u$ under consideration is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Oleg Imanuvilov , Masahiro Yamamoto

It is proposed to monitor spatial and temporal spreads of epidemics via solution of a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a system of three coupled nonlinear parabolic equations. To solve this problem numerically, a version of the so-called…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Michael V. Klibanov , Trung Truong

In this article, for a fourth-order parabolic equation which is closely related for example to the Cahn-Hilliard equation, we study an inverse source problem by interior data and the continuation of solution from lateral Cauchy data. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-25 O. Yu. Imanuvilov , M. Yamamoto

In this paper, we present a new Carleman estimate for the adjoint equations associated to a class of super strong degenerate parabolic linear problems. Our approach considers a standard geometric imposition on the control domain, which can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Bruno S. V. Araújo , Reginaldo Demarque , Luiz Viana

We study an inverse source problem for a semilinear parabolic equation in a bounded domain, where the nonlinearity depends on the unknown function and its gradient through a quadratic reaction term and a Burgers-type convection term. From…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Hu Xirui

This book aims to provide a brief overview of recent advancements in the theory of inverse problems for stochastic partial differential equations. In order to keep the content concise, we will only discuss the inverse problems of two…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Qi Lü , Yu Wang

We study an inverse initial-data problem for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in which the initial wave field is reconstructed from lateral measurements. Our approach combines a Legendre-polynomial-exponential-time dimensional reduction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Navaraj Neupane , Loc Nguyen

The numerical approximation of an inverse problem subject to the convection--diffusion equation when diffusion dominates is studied. We derive Carleman estimates that are on a form suitable for use in numerical analysis and with explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Erik Burman , Mihai Nechita , Lauri Oksanen

For the first time, we develop in this paper the globally convergent convexification numerical method for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for the 3D Helmholtz equation for the case when the backscattering data are generated by a point source…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Vo Anh Khoa , Michael Victor Klibanov , Loc Hoang Nguyen

This paper considers the inverse problem of identifying the source term of parabolic equations from sparse boundary measurements. We used data from moving sensors to locate the unknown source term. This work first proves the uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Qiling Gu , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

We investigate uniqueness in the inverse problem of reconstructing simultaneously a spacewise conductivity function and a heat source in the parabolic heat equation from the usual conditions of the direct problem and additional information…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Adriano De Cezaro , B. Tomas Johansson

We consider a $2\times 2$ system of parabolic equations with first and zeroth coupling and establish a Carleman estimate by extra data of only one component without data of initial values. Then we apply the Carleman estimate to inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-09-10 Assia Benabdallah , Michel Cristofol , Patricia Gaitan , Masahiro Yamamoto

A convexification-based numerical method for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a parabolic PDE is presented. The key element of this method is the presence of the so-called Carleman Weight Function in the numerical scheme. Convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-10 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Wenlong Zhang