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In this article we study inverse source problems for time-fractional diffusion equations from \textit{a posteriori} boundary measurement. Using the memory effect of these class of equations, we solve these inverse problems for several class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Jaan Janno , Yavar Kian

In this paper, we discuss the uniqueness for solution to time-fractional diffusion equation $\partial_t^\alpha (u-u_0) + Au=0$ with the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition, where an elliptic operator $-A$ is not necessarily symmetric.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Daijun Jiang , Zhiyuan Li , Matthieu Pauron , Masahiro Yamamoto

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of determining the time and space dependent source term of diffusion equations with constant-order time-fractional derivative in $(0,2)$. We examine two different cases. In the first one, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Yavar Kian , Eric Soccorsi , Qi Xue , Masahiro Yamamoto

We consider initial boundary value problems for one-dimensional diffusion equation with time-fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ which are subject to non-zero Neumann boundary conditions. We prove the uniqueness for an inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-25 W. Rundell , M. Yamamoto

Inverse problems for a diffusion equation containing a generalized fractional derivative are studied. The equation holds in a time interval $(0,T)$ and it is assumed that a state $u$ (solution of diffusion equation) and a source $f$ are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Jaan Janno

In this article, for a two dimensional fractional diffusion equation, we study an inverse problem for simultaneous restoration of the fractional order and the source term from the sparse boundary measurements. By the adjoint system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Zhiyuan Li , Zhidong Zhang

In this paper, we consider two linear inverse problems for the time-fractional wave equation, assuming that its right-hand side takes the separable form $f(t)h(x)$, where $t \geq 0$ and $x \in \Omega \subset R^N $. The objective is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Durdiev Durdimurod Kalandarovich

In this article, for a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation $\pppa u(x,t) = -Au(x,t)$, $0<t<T$ with fractional order $\alpha \in (1,2)$, we consider the backward problem in time: determine $u(\cdot,t)$, $0<t<T$ by $u(\cdot,T)$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Giuseppe Floridia , Masahiro Yamamoto

A standard inverse problem is to determine a source which is supported in an unknown domain $D$ from external boundary measurements. Here we consider the case of a time-dependent situation where the source is equal to unity in an unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-08 William Rundell , Zhidong Zhang

This paper investigates an inverse source problem for a multi-term time-fractional diffusion equation with Caputo derivatives. The source term is separable as \(f(x)g(t)\), with the unknown spatial component \(f(x)\) reconstructed from an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Ravshan Ashurov , Damir Shamuratov

In this work the authors consider an inverse source problem in the following stochastic fractional diffusion equation $$\partial_t^\alpha u(x,t)+\mathcal{A} u(x,t)=f(x)h(t)+g(x) \dot{\mathbb{W}}(t).$$ The interested inverse problem is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Pingping Niu , Tapio Helin , Zhidong Zhang

This paper is concerned with the mathematical analysis of the inverse random source problem for the time fractional diffusion equation, where the source is assumed to be driven by a fractional Brownian motion. Given the random source, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Xiaoli Feng , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

In this work, we consider an inverse problem of determining a time dependent coefficient in a fully fractional diffusion equation with a nonlinear source term. The nonlocal initial-boundary value problem refers to the forward model: the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 D. K. Durdiev , H. H. Turdiev

This article deals with an inverse problem of identifying the fractional order in the 1D time fractional diffusion equation (TFDE in short) using the measurement at one space-time point. Based on the expression of the solution to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Yi Zhang , Xianzheng Jia , Gongsheng Li

In this article, we consider the space-time fractional (nonlocal) equation characterizing the so-called "double-scale" anomalous diffusion $$\partial_t^\beta u(t, x) = -(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}u(t,x) - (-\Delta)^{\gamma/2}u(t,x) \ \ t> 0, \…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Ngartelbaye Guerngar , Erkan Nane , Ramazan Tinatztepe , Suleyman Ulusoy , Hans Werner Van Wyk

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Yun Zhang , Xiaoli Feng , Xiongbin Yan

In this paper, we deal with the inverse source problem of determining a source in a time fractional diffusion equation where data are given at a fixed time. This problem is ill-posed, i.e., the solution does not depend continuously on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Tuan Nguyen Huy , Erkan Nane

In this paper, we first establish a weak unique continuation property for time-fractional diffusion-advection equations. The proof is mainly based on the Laplace transform and the unique continuation properties for elliptic and parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Daijun Jiang , Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

We study some inverse problems for time-fractional Schr\"odinger equations involving the Caputo derivative of fractional order $\alpha \in (0,1)$. We prove refined uniqueness results from sets of positive Lebesgue measure for various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 S. E. Chorfi , F. Et-tahri , L. Maniar , M. Yamamoto

This article deals with time-fractional diffusion equations with time-dependent singular source term. Whenever the order of the time-fractional derivative is either multi-term, distributed or space-dependent, we prove that the system admits…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Yavar Kian , Eric Soccorsi