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We consider the inverse problem of determining different type of information about a diffusion process, described by ordinary or fractional diffusion equations stated on a bounded domain, like the density of the medium or the velocity field…

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The inverse problem of determining the right-hand side of the subdiffusion equation with the fractional Caputo derivative is considered. The right-hand side of the equation has the form $f(x)g(t)$ and the unknown is function $f(x)$. The…

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Using the concept of fractional derivatives of Riemann$-$Liouville on time scales, we first introduce right fractional Sobolev spaces and characterize them. Then, we prove the equivalence of some norms in the introduced spaces, and obtain…

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This paper addresses the inverse source problem for a mixed-type fractional wave-diffusion-wave equation posed in a cylindrical domain. The governing equation involves a time-dependent variable-order fractional derivative, which enables the…

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In this work we investigate an inverse coefficient problem for the one-dimensional subdiffusion model, which involves a Caputo fractional derivative in time. The inverse problem is to determine two coefficients and multiple parameters (the…

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We consider a half-order time-fractional diffusion equation in an arbitrary dimension and investigate inverse problems of determining the source term or the diffusion coefficient from spatial data at an arbitrarily fixed time under some…

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In this work, an inverse problem in the fractional diffusion equation with random source is considered. Statistical moments are used of the realizations of single point observation $u(x_0,t,\omega).$ We build the representation of the…

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In this article, we consider the diffusion equation with multi-term time-fractional derivatives. We first derive that the solution is positive when the source term is nonpositive by a subordination principle for the solution. As an…

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The object of this paper is to present a computable solution of a fractional partial differential equation associated with a Riemann-Liouville derivative of fractional order as the time-derivative and Riesz-Feller fractional derivative as…

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In this paper, we obtain the sharp uniqueness for an inverse $x$-source problem for a one-dimensional time-fractional diffusion equation with a zeroth-order term by the minimum possible lateral Cauchy data. The key ingredient is the unique…

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In mathematical modeling of the non-squared frequency-dependent diffusions, also known as the anomalous diffusions, it is desirable to have a positive real Fourier transform for the time derivative of arbitrary fractional or odd integer…

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We investigate the inverse problem consisting in the identification of constant coefficients for a fractional-in-time partial differential equation governed by a finite sum of positive self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space under…

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In this paper, we investigate a nonlinear inverse problem aimed at recovering a coefficient $a(t, x)$, dependent on both time and a subset of spatial variables, in a diffusion equation \( u_t - \Delta_x u - u_{yy} +a(t, x) u = f(t,x,y) \),…

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In this chapter, we mainly review theoretical results on inverse source problems for diffusion equations with the Caputo time-fractional derivatives of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. Our survey covers the following types of inverse problems: 1.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Yikan Liu , Zhiyuan Li , Masahiro Yamamoto

The work is devoted to the study of the inverse problem of determining the right-hand side of a nonlinear subdiffusion equation with a Caputo derivative with respect to time. Nonlinearity of the equation means that the right-hand side of…

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