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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, 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

This work presents a mathematical model to enable rapid prediction of airborne contaminant transport based on scarce sensor measurements. The method is designed for applications in critical infrastructure protection (CIP), such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Marco Mattuschka , Daniel Walter , Max von Danwitz , Alexander Popp

We develop a new variational formulation of the inverse Stefan problem, where information on the heat flux on the fixed boundary is missing and must be found along with the temperature and free boundary. We employ optimal control framework,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Ugur G. Abdulla

We consider the recovery of a source term $f(x,t)=p(x)q(t)$ for the nonhomogeneous heat equation in $\Omega\times (0,\infty)$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with smooth boundary $\partial\Omega$ from overposed lateral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-07 William Rundell , Zhidong Zhang

This work investigates both direct and inverse problems of the variable-exponent sub-diffusion model, which attracts increasing attentions in both practical applications and theoretical aspects. Based on the perturbation method, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Zhiyuan Li , Chunlong Sun , Xiangcheng Zheng

An inverse source problem for the heat equation is considered. Extraction formulae for information about the time and location when and where the unknown source of the equation firstly appeared are given from a single lateral boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-16 Masaru Ikehata

We consider an inverse source problem for partially coherent light propagating in the Fresnel regime. The data is the coherence of the field measured away from the source. The reconstruction is based on a minimum residue formulation, which…

In this paper, we present the analytical and numerical study of the optimization approach for determining the space-dependent source function in the parabolic inverse source problem using partial boundary measurements. The Lagrangian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-23 T. Sharma , L. Beilina , K. Sakthivel

We address the initial source identification problem for the heat equation, a notably ill-posed inverse problem characterized by exponential instability. Departing from classical Tikhonov regularization, we propose a novel approach based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Kang Liu , Enrique Zuazua

The linear inverse source and scattering problems are studied from the perspective of compressed sensing, in particular the idea that sufficient incoherence and sparsity guarantee uniqueness of the solution. By introducing the sensor as…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-05-19 Albert Fannjiang , Pengchong Yan , Thomas Strohmer

This paper extends the sample complexity theory for ill-posed inverse problems developed in a recent work by the authors [`Compressed sensing for inverse problems and the sample complexity of the sparse Radon transform', J. Eur. Math. Soc.,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Giovanni S. Alberti , Alessandro Felisi , Matteo Santacesaria , S. Ivan Trapasso

This paper is concerned with a practical inverse problem of simultaneously reconstructing the surface heat flux and the thickness of a solid structure from the associated ultrasonic measurements. In a thermoacoustic coupling model, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Youjun Deng , Hongyu Liu , Xianchao Wang , Dong Wei , Liyan Zhu

Temperature monitoring during the life time of heat source components in engineering systems becomes essential to guarantee the normal work and the working life of these components. However, prior methods, which mainly use the interpolate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Zhiqiang Gong , Weien Zhou , Jun Zhang , Wei Peng , Wen Yao

For the heat equation in a bounded domain we give a stability result for a smooth diffusion coefficient. The key ingredients are a global Carleman-type estimate, a Poincar\'e-type estimate and an energy estimate with a single observation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-06-12 Patricia Gaitan

We consider an inverse source problem in the stationary radiative transport through an absorbing and scattering medium in two dimensions. Using the angularly resolved radiation measured on an arc of the boundary, we propose a numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Hiroshi Fujiwara , Kamran Sadiq , Alexandru Tamasan

This article is devoted to inverse problems of recovering point sources in mathematical models of heat and mass transfer. The main attention is paid to well-posedness questions of these inverse problems with pointwise overdetermination…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Sergey Pyatkov , Lyubov Neustroeva

We study inverse boundary problems for evolutionary PDEs using only a single passive boundary observation, where data from an unknown internal source propagate through an unknown medium without active inputs. The goal is the simultaneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Lu Chen , Yan Jiang , Hongyu Liu , Catharine W. K. Lo , Longyue Tao

The inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation is considered, with partial data. Here it is shown that under certain smoothness conditions on the scattering and absorption coefficients, one can recover sources supported in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Mark Hubenthal

We develop a new variational formulation of the inverse Stefan problem, where information on the heat flux on the fixed boundary is missing and must be found along with the temperature and free boundary. We employ optimal control framework,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Ugur G. Abdulla