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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

In this work, we are concerned with the diffusive optical tomography (DOT) problem in the case when only one or two pairs of Cauchy data is available. We propose a simple and efficient direct sampling method (DSM) to locate inhomogeneities…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 Yat Tin Chow , Kazufumi Ito , Keji Liu , Jun Zou

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Simone Creo , Maria Rosaria Lancia , Andrea Mola , Gianluca Mola , Silvia Romanelli

We consider the inverse boundary value problem of recovering piecewise homogeneous elastic tensor and piecewise homogeneous mass density from a localized lateral Dirichlet-to-Neumann or Neumann-to-Dirichlet map for the elasticity equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Cătălin I. Cârstea , Gen Nakamura , Lauri Oksanen

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

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse problems. However, training diffusion models in the pixel space are both data-intensive and computationally demanding, which restricts their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Bowen Song , Soo Min Kwon , Zecheng Zhang , Xinyu Hu , Qing Qu , Liyue Shen

Long ago appeared a discussion in quantum mechanics of the problem of opening a completely absorbing shutter on which were impinging a stream of particles of definite velocity. The solution of the problem was obtained in a form entirely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vladimir Man'ko , Marcos Moshinsky , Anju Sharma

Given $(M,g)$, a compact connected Riemannian manifold of dimension $d \geq 2$, with boundary $\partial M$, we consider an initial boundary value problem for a fractional diffusion equation on $(0,T) \times M$, $T>0$, with time-fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Yavar Kian , Lauri Oksanen , Eric Soccorsi , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this paper, we study a linear convection-diffusion equation with time-dependent coefficients on a bounded interval. The problem includes inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and is motivated by physical models where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Konstantinos Kalimeris , Türker Özsarı

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

This paper provides an analysis of the linearized inverse problem in multifrequency electrical impedance tomography. We consider an isotropic conductivity distribution with a finite number of unknown inclusions with different frequency…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Giovanni S. Alberti , Habib Ammari , Bangti Jin , Jin-Keun Seo , Wenlong Zhang

This paper investigates the inverse biharmonic scattering problems of identifying the shape and location of the obstacle with phased and phaseless measurement data. A direct imaging method based on reverse time migration is proposed for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Tielei Zhu , Zhihao Ge

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

The article deals with a classical inverse problem: the computation of the refractive index of a medium from ultrasound time-of-flight (TOF) measurements. This problem is very popular in seismics but also for tomographic problems in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Udo Schroeder , Thomas Schuster

We discuss the identification of a time-dependent potential in a time-fractional diffusion model from a boundary measurement taken at a single point. Theoretically, we establish a conditional Lipschitz stability for this inverse problem.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Siyu Cen , Kwancheol Shin , Zhi Zhou

Ultrasound modulated bioluminescence tomography (UMBLT) is an imaging method which can be formulated as a hybrid inverse source problem. In the regime where light propagation is modeled by a radiative transfer equation, previous approaches…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Francis Chung , Tianyu Yang , Yang Yang

In this work we investigate an inverse problem of recovering point sources and their time-dependent strengths from {a posteriori} partial internal measurements in a subdiffusion model which involves a Caputo fractional derivative in time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Kuang Huang , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Georges Sadaka , Zhi Zhou

This paper explores the reconstruction of a space-dependent parameter in inverse diffusion problems, proposing a shape-optimization-based approach. We consider a Robin boundary condition, physically motivated in diffuse optical tomography…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Manabu Machida , Hirofumi Notsu , Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago

In this paper we consider the inverse problem of identifying the initial data in a fractionally damped wave equation from time trace measurements on a surface, as relevant in photoacoustic or thermoacoustic tomography. We derive and analyze…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Anna Schlintl

We study an inverse problem for the wave equation where localized wave sources in random scattering media are to be determined from time resolved measurements of the waves at an array of receivers. The sources are far from the array, so the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit