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Optical molecular tomographic imaging is to reconstruct the concentration distribution of photon-molecular probes in a small animal from measured photon fluence rates. The localization and quantification of molecular probes is related to…

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We consider a partial data inverse problem for a time-dependent convection-diffusion equation on an admissible manifold. We prove that the time-dependent convection term and time-dependent density can be recovered uniquely modulo a known…

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This paper proposes a new mathematical formulation for flow measurement based on the inverse source problem for wave equations with partial boundary measurement. Inspired by the design of acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs), we…

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An efficient computational approach for optimal reconstruction of binary-type images suitable for models in various applications including biomedical imaging is developed and validated. The methodology includes derivative-free optimization…

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A method is developed within an adaptive framework to solve quasilinear diffusion problems with internal and possibly boundary layers starting from a coarse mesh. The solution process is assumed to start on a mesh where the problem is badly…

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We consider the inverse problem of the reconstruction of the spatially distributed dielectric constant $\varepsilon_{r}\left(\mathbf{x}\right), \ \mathbf{x}\in \mathbb{R}^{3}$, which is an unknown coefficient in the Maxwell's equations,…

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In the paper, we propose an analytical and numerical approach to identify scalar parameters (coefficients, orders of fractional derivatives) in the multi-term fractional differential operator in time, $\mathbf{D}_t$. To this end, we analyze…

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We consider an isotropic elastic medium occupying a bounded domain D whose density and Lam\'e parameters are piecewise smooth. In the elastic wave initial value inverse problem, we are given the solution operator for the elastic wave…

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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 article, we study an inverse boundary value problem for the time-dependent convection-diffusion equation. We use the nonlinear Carleman weight to recover the time-dependent convection term and time-dependent density coefficient…

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We study the seismic inverse problem for the recovery of subsurface properties in acoustic media. In order to reduce the ill-posedness of the problem, the heterogeneous wave speed parameter to be recovered is represented using a limited…

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Parameter identification problems for partial differential equations are an important subclass of inverse problems. The parameter-to-state map, which maps the parameter of interest to the respective solution of the PDE or state of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Heiko Hoffmann , Anne Wald

The problem of recovering coefficients in a diffusion equation is one of the basic inverse problems. Perhaps the most important term is the one that couples the length and time scales and is often referred to as {\it the\/} diffusion…

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We study an inverse initial-density problem for a nonlinear diffusive coagulation--fragmentation equation with known coagulation and fragmentation kernels. The objective is to recover the unknown initial particle-size distribution on a…

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In this paper, we consider simultaneous reconstruction of the diffusion coefficient and initial state for a one-dimensional heat equation through boundary control and measurement. The boundary measurement is known to make the system exactly…

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In this paper, we investigate the recovery of the absorption coefficient from boundary data assuming that the region of interest is illuminated at an initial time. We consider a sufficiently strong and isotropic, but otherwise unknown…

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In this paper, we consider a problem inspired by the real-world need to identify the topographical features of ocean basins. Specifically we consider the problem of estimating the bottom impermeable boundary to an inviscid, incompressible,…

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In this paper, we consider the inverse shape problem of recovering small and extended isotropic scatterers with a conductive boundary condition. Here, we assume that the measured far-field data is known at a fixed wave number. We will…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Rafael Ceja Ayala , Isaac Harris

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing inhomogeneities by performing a finite number of scattering measurements of acoustic type in the time-harmonic setting. We set up the reconstruction as a fully discrete variational problem…

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