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This paper is focused on the study of an inverse problem for a non-self-adjoint hyperbolic equation. More precisely, we attempt to stably recover a first order coefficient appearing in a wave equation from the knowledge of Neumann boundary…

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When considering fractional diffusion equation as model equation in analyzing anomalous diffusion processes, some important parameters in the model related to orders of the fractional derivatives, are often unknown and difficult to be…

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

In this paper, we consider a Cauchy problem for a first-order hyperbolic equation with time-dependent coefficients. Cauchy data are given on a lateral subboundary and we obtain local H\"older stabilities for inverse source and coefficient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Giuseppe Floridia , Hiroshi Takase

We study the inverse boundary value problems of determining a potential in the Helmholtz type equation for the perturbed biharmonic operator from the knowledge of the partial Cauchy data set. Our geometric setting is that of a domain whose…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Boya Liu

The stability theory for hyperbolic initial boundary value problems relies most of the time on the Laplace transform with respect to the time variable. For technical reasons, this usually restricts the validity of stability estimates to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Jean-François Coulombel

We study the inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map at selected frequency as the data. We develop an explicit reconstruction of the wavespeed using a multi-level nonlinear projected…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-11 Elena Beretta , Maarten V. de Hoop , Lingyun Qiu , Otmar Scherzer

An inverse problem of finding an obstacle and the boundary condition on its surface from the fixed-energy scattering data is studied. A new method is developed for a proof of the uniqueness results. The method does not use the discreteness…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm

Herein, we study an inverse problem for detecting unknown obstacles by the enclosure method using the Dirichlet--to--Neumann map for measurements. We justify the method for an penetrable obstacle case involving a biharmonic equation. We use…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Gyeongha Hwang , Manas Kar

We consider an optimal control problem for the obstacle problem with an elliptic variational inequality. The obstacle function which is the control function is assumed in $H^{2}$. We use an approximate technique to introduce a family of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Radouen Ghanem

This paper is addressed to an inverse stochastic hyperbolic equation with three unknowns, i.e., a source term, an initial displacement and an initial velocity. The global uniqueness is proved by a new global Carleman estimate for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Qi Lü , Xu Zhang

This paper is devoted to the reconstruction of the time and space-dependent coefficient in an infinite cylindrical hyperbolic domain. Using a local Carleman estimate we prove the uniqueness and a H\"older stability in the determining of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-07 L. Beilina , M. Cristofol , S. Li

We investigate linear parabolic, second-order boundary value problems with mixed boundary conditions on rough domains. Assuming only boundedness and ellipticity on the coefficient function and very mild conditions on the geometry of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-25 K. Disser , A. F. M. ter Elst , J. Rehberg

We establish Lipschitz stability for both the potential and the initial conditions from a single boundary measurement in the context of a hyperbolic boundary initial value problem. In our setting, the initial conditions are allowed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Shiqi Ma

We consider the generalized spectral estimation problem in infinite dimensional spaces. We solve this problem using the boundary control approach to inverse theory and provide an application to the initial boundary value problem for a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-15 S. A. Avdonin , V. S. Mikhaylov

In this paper, we study the logarithmic stability for the hyperbolic equations by arbitrary boundary observation. Based on Carleman estimate, we first prove an estimate of the resolvent operator of such equation. Then we prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-05-07 Xiaoyu Fu

This article addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering both the wave speed coefficient and an unknown initial condition (acting as the source) for the multidimensional wave equation from a single passive boundary…

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In [2] we introduced a method combining together an observability inequality and a spectral decomposition to get a logarithmic stability estimate for the inverse problem of determining both the potential and the damping coefficient in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Kais Ammari , Mourad Choulli

The acoustic inverse obstacle scattering problem consists of determining the shape of a domain from measurements of the scattered far field due to some set of incident fields (probes). For a penetrable object with known sound speed, this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Carlos Borges , Manas Rachh , Leslie Greengard

In this paper we are concerned with a two-penalty boundary obstacle problem of interest in thermics, fluid dynamics and electricity. Specifically, we prove existence, uniqueness and optimal regularity of the solutions, and we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Donatella Danielli , Rohit Jain

This paper reviews recent results on hybrid inverse problems, which are also called coupled-physics inverse problems of multi-wave inverse problems. Inverse problems tend to be most useful in, e.g., medical and geophysical imaging, when…

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