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We consider the ultrasound imaging problem governed by a nonlinear wave equation of Westervelt type with variable wave speed. We show that the coefficient of nonlinearity can be recovered uniquely from knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Sebastian Acosta , Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

In this paper we investigate the following fractional order in time Cauchy problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \mathbb{D}_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)+Au(t)=f(u(t)), & 1<\alpha <2, u(0)=u_{0},\,\,\,u^{\prime }(0)=u_{1}. & \end{cases}%…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Edgardo Alvarez , Ciprian Gal , Valentin Keyantuo , Mahamadi Warma

We show that the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map on an arbitrary open portion of the boundary of a domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 2$, for a class of semilinear elliptic equations, determines the nonlinearity uniquely.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-07 Katya Krupchyk , Gunther Uhlmann

This work investigates the semilinear wave equation featuring the displacement dependent term $\sigma(u)\partial_t u $ and nonlinearity $f(u)$. By developing refined space-time a priori estimates under extended ranges of the nonlinearity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Cuncai Liu , Fengjuan Meng , Chang Zhang

We prove a local well-posedness result for an evolution problem consisting of a semilinear wave equation with subcritical nonlinearities posed on a time-dependent compact Riemannian manifold and supplied with a nonlinear dynamical boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Alessio Marta

We provide the first proof of local well-posedness for the two-dimensional gravity water wave equations with spatially quasi-periodic initial conditions. We represent the solution using holomorphic coordinates, which are equivalent to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Mihaela Ifrim , Jon Wilkening , Xinyu Zhao

We study the stability issue for the inverse problem of determining a coefficient appearing in a Schr\"odinger equation defined on an infinite cylindrical waveguide. More precisely, we prove the stable recovery of some general class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Yosra Soussi

We study the uncoupled space-time fractional operators involving time-dependent coefficients and formulate the corresponding inverse problems. Our goal is to determine the variable coefficients from the exterior partial measurements of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Li Li

We show that the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps given on an arbitrary open non-empty portion of the boundary of a smooth domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 2$, for classes of semilinear and quasilinear conductivity equations,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Yavar Kian , Katya Krupchyk , Gunther Uhlmann

We investigate global uniqueness for an inverse problem for a nonlocal diffusion equation on domains that are bounded in one direction. The coefficients are assumed to be unknown and isotropic on the entire space. We first show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Yi-Hsuan Lin , Jesse Railo , Philipp Zimmermann

We investigate the monotonicity method for fractional semilinear elliptic equations with power type nonlinearities. We prove that if-and-only-if monotonicity relations between coefficients and the derivative of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Yi-Hsuan Lin

We study the wave equation on a bounded domain of $\mathbb R^m$ and on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with boundary. We assume that the coefficients of the wave equation are unknown but that we are given the hyperbolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Anna Kirpichnikova , Jussi Korpela , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen

We consider inverse problems for non-linear hyperbolic and elliptic equations and give an introduction to the method based on the multiple linearization, or on the construction of artificial sources, to solve these problems. The method is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Matti Lassas

We consider the following inverse problem: Suppose a $(1+1)$-dimensional wave equation on $\mathbb{R}_+$ with zero initial conditions is excited with a Neumann boundary data modelled as a white noise process. Given also the Dirichlet data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Emilia L. K. Blåsten , Tapio Helin , Antti Kujanpää , Lauri Oksanen , Jesse Railo

We consider the identification of nonlinear diffusion coefficients of the form $a(t,u)$ or $a(u)$ in quasi-linear parabolic and elliptic equations. Uniqueness for this inverse problem is established under very general assumptions using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Herbert Egger , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann , Matthias Schlottbom

We study the inverse problem for the fractional Laplace equation with multiple nonlinear lower order terms. We show that the direct problem is well-posed and the inverse problem is uniquely solvable. More specifically, the unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-18 Ru-Yu Lai , Laurel Ohm

In this paper, we study the performance of Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) from time-harmonic Cauchy data via conditional well-posedness driven iterative regularization. The Cauchy data can be obtained with dual sensors measuring the pressure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Giovanni Alessandrini , Maarten V. de Hoop , Florian Faucher , Romina Gaburro , Eva Sincich

We study the derivative nonlinear wave equation \( - \partial_{tt} u + \Delta u = |\nabla u|^2 \) on \( \mathbb{R}^{1+3} \). The deterministic theory is determined by the Lorentz-critical regularity \( s_L = 2 \), and both local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Bjoern Bringmann

In this paper we consider the inverse problem of determining on a compact Riemannian manifold the metric tensor in the wave equation with Dirichlet data from measured Neumann boundary observations. This information is enclosed in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Mourad Bellassoued

Hybrid inverse problems are mathematical descriptions of coupled-physics (also called multi-waves) imaging modalities that aim to combine high resolution with high contrast. The solution of a high-resolution inverse problem, a first step…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Guillaume Bal