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In this paper we establish uniqueness in the inverse boundary value problem for the two coefficients in the inhomogeneous porous medium equation $\epsilon\partial_tu-\nabla\cdot(\gamma\nabla u^m)=0$, with $m>1$, in dimension 3 or higher,…
We consider an inverse boundary value problem for the doubly nonlinear parabolic equation \[ \epsilon(x)\partial_t u^m-\nabla\cdot\bigl(\gamma(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\bigr)=0 \quad\text{in }(0,T)\times\Omega, \] where…
This is the first of a two-parts work on the qualitative properties and large time behavior for the following quasilinear equation involving a spatially inhomogeneous absorption $$ \partial_tu=\Delta u^m-|x|^{\sigma}u^p, $$ posed for…
We consider a time-independent variable coefficients fractional porous medium equation and formulate an associated inverse problem. We determine both the conductivity and the absorption coefficient from exterior partial measurements of the…
In this paper I consider the inverse boundary value problem for a quasilinear, anisotropic, elliptic equation of the form $\nabla\cdot(\gamma\nabla u+|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=0$, where $\gamma$ is a smooth, matrix valued, function with a…
The main purpose of this article is the study of an inverse problem for nonlocal porous medium equations (NPMEs) with a linear absorption term. More concretely, we show that under certain assumptions on the time-independent coefficients…
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 paper we prove uniqueness for some parameter identification problems for the JMGT equation, a third order in time quasilinear PDE in nonlinear acoustics. The coefficients to be recovered are the space dependent nonlinearity…
We study a porous medium equation with nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. More precisely, $$ u_t=\nabla\cdot(u\nabla (-\Delta)^{-s}u), \quad \ 0<s<1. $$ The problem is posed in $\{x\in\ren, t\in…
The problem of recovering coefficients in a diffusion equation is one of the basic inverse problems. Perhaps the most important term is the one that couples the length and time scales and is often referred to as {\it the\/} diffusion…
We study the inverse problem of recovering a semilinear diffusion term $a(t,\lambda)$ as well as a quasilinear convection term $\mathcal B(t,x,\lambda,\xi)$ in a nonlinear parabolic equation $$\partial_tu-\textrm{div}(a(t,u) \nabla…
In this paper we study existence and nonexistence of solutions for a Dirichlet boundary value problem whose model is $$ \begin{cases} -\sum_{m=1}^{\infty} a_m \Delta u^m= f&\text{in}\ \Omega \newline u=0 & \text{on}\ \partial\Omega\,,…
In this paper we consider the time dependent Porous Medium Equation, $u_t = \Delta u^\gamma$ with real polytropic exponent $\gamma>1$, subject to a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. We are interested in recovering $\gamma$ from the…
This paper is concerned with inverse acoustic source problems in an unbounded domain with dynamical boundary surface data of Dirichlet kind. The measurement data are taken at a surface far away from the source support. We prove uniqueness…
We introduce and analyze a numerical approximation of the porous medium equation with fractional potential pressure introduced by Caffarelli and V\'azquez: \[ \partial_t u = \nabla \cdot (u^{m-1}\nabla (-\Delta)^{-\sigma}u) \qquad…
We provide a rather complete description of the results obtained so far on the nonlinear diffusion equation $u_t=\nabla\cdot (u^{m-1}\nabla (-\Delta)^{-s}u)$, which describes a flow through a porous medium driven by a nonlocal pressure. We…
We consider the inverse boundary value problem of the simultaneous determination of the coefficients $\sigma$ and $q$ of the equation $-\mbox{div}(\sigma \nabla u)+qu = 0$ from knowledge of the so-called Neumann-to-Dirichlet map, given…
We investigate the inverse problem of recovering the diffusion and absorption coefficients $(\sigma,q)$ in the nonlocal diffuse optical tomography equation $(-\text{div}( \sigma \nabla))^s u+q u =0 \text{ in }\Omega$ from the nonlocal…
We study the general nonlinear diffusion equation $u_t=\nabla\cdot (u^{m-1}\nabla (-\Delta)^{-s}u)$ that describes a flow through a porous medium which is driven by a nonlocal pressure. We consider constant parameters $m>1$ and $0<s<1$, we…
We develop a theory of existence and uniqueness for the following porous medium equation with fractional diffusion, $$ \{ll} \dfrac{\partial u}{\partial t} + (-\Delta)^{\sigma/2} (|u|^{m-1}u)=0, & \qquad x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\; t>0, [8pt]…