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We consider a diffusion and a wave equations: $$ \partial_t^ku(x,t) = \Delta u(x,t) + \mu(t)f(x), \quad x\in \Omega, \, t>0, \quad k=1,2 $$ with the zero initial and boundary conditions, where $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ is a bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Jin Cheng , Shuai Lu , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this paper, direct and inverse problems for a space fractional advection dispersion equation on a finite domain are studied. The inverse problem consists in determining the source term from a final observation. We first drive the…

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In the present work, we discuss a unique solvability of an inverse-source problem with integral transmitting condition for time-fractional mixed type equation in a rectangular domain, where the unknown source term depends on space variable…

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In this paper, we study both the direct and inverse random source problems associated with the multi-term time-fractional diffusion-wave equation driven by a fractional Brownian motion. Regarding the direct problem, the well-posedness is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Xiaoli Feng , Qiang Yao , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

In this article, we consider the diffusion equation with multi-term time-fractional derivatives. We first derive that the solution is positive when the source term is nonpositive by a subordination principle for the solution. As an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Xiaona Yang , Zhiyuan Li

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

Lying between traditional parabolic and hyperbolic equations, time-fractional wave equations of order $\alpha\in(1,2)$ in time inherit both decaying and oscillating properties. In this article, we establish a long-time asymptotic estimate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Xinchi Huang , Yikan Liu

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

In this work, we consider an inverse problem of determining a time dependent coefficient in a fully fractional diffusion equation with a nonlinear source term. The nonlocal initial-boundary value problem refers to the forward model: the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 D. K. Durdiev , H. H. Turdiev

We consider fractional diffusion equations and study the stability of the inverse problem of determining the time-dependent parameter in a source term or a coefficient of zero-th order term from observations of the solution at one point in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Kenichi Fujishiro , Yavar Kian

This article proves the uniqueness for two kinds of inverse problems of identifying fractional orders in diffusion equations with multiple time-fractional derivatives by pointwise observation. By means of eigenfunction expansion and Laplace…

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

This paper deals with an inverse source problem for the $1$D time-fractional diffusion equation by using boundary measurement. The conditional stability in identification of the unknown source term is proved on the basis of the Fourier…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Zhiyuan Li

We determine the space-dependent source term for a two-parameter fractional diffusion problem subject to nonlocal non-self-adjoint boundary conditions and two local time-distinct datum. A bi-orthogonal pair of bases is used to construct a…

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In this paper, we focus on a space-time fractional diffusion equation with the generalized Caputo's fractional derivative operator and a general space nonlocal operator (with the fractional Laplace operator as a special case). A weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Junxiong Jia , Jigen Peng , Jiaqing Yang

In this work, an inverse problem in the fractional diffusion equation with random source is considered. Statistical moments are used of the realizations of single point observation $u(x_0,t,\omega).$ We build the representation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Chan Liu , Jin Wen , Zhidong Zhang

This article is concerned with the inverse problem on determining the temporal component of the source term in a coupled system of time-fractional diffusion equations by single point observation. Under a non-degeneracy condition on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Mohamed BenSalah , Yikan Liu

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem on determining an orbit of the moving source in a fractional diffusion(-wave) equations in a connected bounded domain of $\mathbb R^d$ or in the whole space $\mathbb R^d$. Based on a newly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Guanghui Hu , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this chapter, we mainly review theoretical results on inverse source problems for diffusion equations with the Caputo time-fractional derivatives of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. Our survey covers the following types of inverse problems: 1.…

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

We consider the inverse problem of determining different type of information about a diffusion process, described by ordinary or fractional diffusion equations stated on a bounded domain, like the density of the medium or the velocity field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Yavar Kian , Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto