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In this article, we study a direct and an inverse problem for the bi-wave operator $(\Box^2)$ along with second and lower order time-dependent perturbations. In the direct problem, we prove that the operator is well-posed, given initial and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Sombuddha Bhattacharyya , Pranav Kumar

Inverse problems of recovering space-dependent parameters, e.g., initial condition, space-dependent source or potential coefficient, in a subdiffusion model from the terminal observation have been extensively studied in recent years.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Zhi Zhou

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem to recover the scalar, complex-valued refractive index of a medium from measurements of scattered time-harmonic electromagnetic waves at a fixed frequency. The main results are two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Frederic Weidling , Thorsten Hohage

We study the inverse problem of recovering a spatially dependent variable order in a time-fractional diffusion model from the boundary flux measurement generated by a single boundary excitation. It arises in the identification of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jiho Hong , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian

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

This work deals with an inverse source problem for the biharmonic wave equation. A two-stage numerical method is proposed to identify the unknown source from the multi-frequency phaseless data. In the first stage, we introduce some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Yue Zhao

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Abeer Aldoghaither , Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati , Da-Yan Liu

In this paper we consider the problem of simultaneously determining the time-dependent thermal diffusivity and the temperature distribution in one-dimensional heat equation in the case of nonlocal boundary and integral overdetermination…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Mansur I. Ismailov , Fatma Kanca

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

This paper introduces a multi-frequency factorization method for imaging a time-dependent source, specifically to recover its spatial support and the associated excitation instants. Using far-field data from two opposite directions, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Guanqiu Ma , Hongxia Guo , Guanghui Hu

Inverse problems for a diffusion equation containing a generalized fractional derivative are studied. The equation holds in a time interval $(0,T)$ and it is assumed that a state $u$ (solution of diffusion equation) and a source $f$ are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Jaan Janno

We study the inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map at selected frequencies as the data. A conditional Lipschitz stability estimate for the inverse problem holds in the case of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Elena Beretta , Maarten V. de Hoop , Florian Faucher , Otmar Scherzer

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

An inverse source problem for the heat equation is considered. Extraction formulae for information about the time and location when and where the unknown source of the equation firstly appeared are given from a single lateral boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-16 Masaru Ikehata

This article deals with an inverse problem of identifying the fractional order in the 1D time fractional diffusion equation (TFDE in short) using the measurement at one space-time point. Based on the expression of the solution to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Yi Zhang , Xianzheng Jia , Gongsheng Li

This paper is concerned with an inverse wavenumber/frequency-dependent source problem for the Helmholtz equation. In two and three dimensions, the unknown source term is supposed to be compactly supported in spatial variables but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Mengjie Zhao , Suliang Si , Guanghui Hu

The problem of reconstruction of an unknown refractive index $k(x)$ of an inhomogeneous solid $P$ is considered. The refractive index is assumed to be a piecewise-H\"{o}lder function The original boundary value problem for the Helmholtz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Mikhail Medvedik , Yury Smirnov , Aleksei Tsupak

Source extension is a reformulation of inverse problems in wave propagation, that at least in some cases leads to computationally tractable iterative solution methods. The core subproblem in all source extension methods is the solution of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-01 William W. Symes

We formulate an inverse problem for an uncoupled space-time fractional Schr\"odinger equation on closed manifolds. Our main goal is to determine the fractional powers and the Riemannian metric (up to an isometry) simultaneously from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Li Li

In this paper, we investigate the inverse problem of determining an unknown time-dependent source term in a semilinear pseudo-parabolic equation with variable coefficients and a Dirichlet boundary condition. The unknown source term is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Karel Van Bockstal , Khonatbek Khompysh , Arshyn Altybay