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We study the direct and an inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation arising in optical molecular imaging. We show that for generic absorption and scattering coefficients, the direct problem is well-posed and the inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-03-31 Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann

In this paper, we consider the problem of identifying a single moving point source for a three-dimensional wave equation from boundary measurements. Precisely, we show that the knowledge of the field generated by the source at six different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Hanin Al Jebawy , Abdellatif El Badia , Faouzi Triki

These lecture notes summarize various summer schools that I have given on the topic of solving inverse problems (state and parameter estimation) by combining optimally measurement observations and parametrized PDE models. After defining a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Olga Mula

Describing the solutions of inverse problems arising in signal or image processing is an important issue both for theoretical and numerical purposes. We propose a principle which describes the solutions to convex variational problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Vincent Duval

This paper concerns time-harmonic inverse source problems with a single far-field pattern in two dimensions, where the source term is compactly supported in an a priori given inhomogeneous background medium. For convex-polygonal source…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Guanghui Hu , Jingzhi Li

Inverse problems of recovering space-dependent parameters, e.g., initial condition, space-dependent source or potential coefficient, in a subdiffusion model from the terminal observation have been extensively studied in recent years.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Zhi Zhou

We consider the multi-frequency inverse source problem in the presence of a non-homogeneous medium using passive measurements. Precisely, we derive stability estimates for determining the source from the knowledge of only the imaginary part…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Faouzi Triki , Kristoffer Linder-Steinlein , Mirza Karamehmedovic

Partial differential equations are central to describing many physical phenomena. In many applications these phenomena are observed through a sensor network, with the aim of inferring their underlying properties. Leveraging from certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 John Murray-Bruce , Pier Luigi Dragotti

A class of inverse problems for a heat equation with involution perturbation is considered using four different boundary conditions, namely, Dirichlet, Neumann, periodic and anti-periodic boundary conditions. Proved theorems on existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Nasser Al-Salti , Mokhtar Kirane , Berikbol T. Torebek

This paper is concerned with the inverse moving source problems for parabolic equations. Given the temporal function, we prove the uniqueness of the nonlinear inverse problem of determining the orbit function by final data measured in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Yue Zhao

Inverse problems arise in situations where data is available, but the underlying model is not. It can therefore be necessary to infer the parameters of the latter starting from the former. Statistical mechanics offers a toolbox of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-04 Stefano Bae , Dario Bocchi , Luca Maria Del Bono , Luca Leuzzi

The problem of recovering acoustic sources, more specifically monopoles, from point-wise measurements of the corresponding acoustic pressure at a limited number of frequencies is addressed. To this purpose, a family of sparse optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Konstantin Pieper , Bao Quoc Tang , Philip Trautmann , Daniel Walter

We consider a problem of identification of point sources in time dependent advection-diffusion systems with a non-linear reaction term. The linear counterpart of the problem in question can be reduced to solving a system of non-linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Alexander V. Mamonov , Yen-Hsi Richard Tsai

In this work, we propose a Bayesian thinning algorithm for recovering weighted point source functions in the heat equation from boundary flux observations. The major challenge in the classical Bayesian framework lies in constructing…

Computation · Statistics 2025-09-19 Zhiliang Deng , Chen Li , Xiaomei Yang

Two main aims of this paper are to develop a numerical method to solve an inverse source problem for parabolic equations and apply it to solve a nonlinear coefficient inverse problem. The inverse source problem in this paper is the problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Phuong Mai Nguyen , Loc Hoang Nguyen

We consider the inverse source problem in the parabolic equation, where the unknown source possesses the semi-discrete formulation. Theoretically, we prove that the flux data from any nonempty open subset of the boundary can uniquely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Guang Lin , Zecheng Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

We consider an inverse problem for an inhomogeneous wave equation with discrete-in-time sources, modeling a seismic rupture. We assume that the sources occur along a path with subsonic velocity, and that data are collected over time on some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Maarten V. de Hoop , Lauri Oksanen , Justin Tittelfitz

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Yavar Kian , Hongyu Liu , Li-Li Wang , Guang-Hui Zheng

Similar to the obstacle or medium scattering problems, an important property of the phaseless far field patterns for source scattering problems is the translation invariance. Thus it is impossible to reconstruct the location of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

This paper is concerned with time domain forward scattering and inverse scattering problems with a single moving point source as the emitter. Approximate solutions are provided for the forward scattering problem with a moving emitter.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Yu Sun , Bo Chen , Peng Gao , Qiuyi Li , Yao Sun