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The main purpose of this work is to study an inverse coefficient problem for the telegrapher's equations on a tree-shaped network. To analyze the stability for this inverse problem, Carleman estimate is established first. Based upon this…
This work is concerned with the obtainment of new Carleman estimates for linear parabolic equations, where the second-order differential operator brings a super strong degeneracy in a positive measure subset of the spatial domain. In order…
Existence, uniqueness and stability of kinetic and entropy solutions to the boundary value problem for the Kolmogorov-type genuinely nonlinear ultra-parabolic equation with a smooth source term is established. After this, we consider the…
We establish Lipschitz stability for both the potential and the initial conditions from a single boundary measurement in the context of a hyperbolic boundary initial value problem. In our setting, the initial conditions are allowed to…
We revisit a well-established model for highly re-entrant semi-conductor manufacturing systems, and analyze it in the setting of states, in- and outfluxes being Borel measures. This is motivated by the lack of optimal solutions in the…
The Carleman embedding method is a widely used technique for linearizing a system of nonlinear differential equations, but fails to converge in regions where there are multiple fixed points. We propose and test three different versions of a…
This article is concerned with the inverse problem on determining the temporal component of the source term in a coupled system of time-fractional diffusion equations by single point observation. Under a non-degeneracy condition on the…
We present in this paper a novel numerical reconstruction method for solving a 3D coefficient inverse problem with scattering data generated by a single direction of the incident plane wave. This inverse problem is well-known to be a highly…
In this paper we prove new connections between two frameworks for analysis and control of nonlinear systems: the Koopman operator framework and contraction analysis. Each method, in different ways, provides exact and global analyses of…
We introduce a direct method allowing to solve numerically inverse type problems for linear hyperbolic equations. We first consider the reconstruction of the full solution of the wave equation posed in $\Omega\times (0,T)$ - $\Omega$ a…
We initiate the study of inverse source problems for quasilinear elliptic equations of the form \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \nabla \cdot (\gamma(x,u,\nabla u) \nabla u) = F & \text{in } \Omega, \\ u = f & \text{on } \partial\Omega,…
In this article we introduce a solution method for a special class of nonlinear initial-value problems using set-based propagation techniques. The novelty of the approach is that we employ a particular embedding (Carleman linearization) to…
This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of retrieving the initial value of a time-fractional fourth order parabolic equation from source and final time observation. The considered problem is an {\it ill-posed problem.} We obtain…
In this article we study the inverse problem of determining a semilinear term appearing in an elliptic equation from boundary measurements. Our main objective is to develop flexible and general theoretical results that can be used for…
In a series of publications of the second author, including some with coauthors, globally strictly convex Tikhonov-like functionals were constructed for some nonlinear ill-posed problems. The main element of such a functional is the…
This paper addresses the inverse scattering problem in the domain Omega. The input data, measured outside Omega, involve the waves generated by the interaction of plane waves with various directions and unknown scatterers fully occluded…
The aim of this paper is to solve an important inverse source problem which arises from the well-known inverse scattering problem. We propose to truncate the Fourier series of the solution to the governing equation with respect to a special…
We find an explicit form of entropy solutions to a Riemann problem for a degenerate nonlinear parabolic equation with piecewise constant velocity and diffusion coefficients. It is demonstrated that this solution corresponds to the minimum…
In this paper, by constructing the weight functions, a global Carleman estimate for the Schrodinger equation on a tree is established, with a strong assumption on the solution. And the estimate is able to be applied to derive the Lipschitz…
This paper presents an inverse optimality method to solve the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for a class of nonlinear problems for which the cost is quadratic and the dynamics are affine in the input. The method is inverse optimal because…