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This paper is concerned with the inverse moving source problems for parabolic equations. Given the temporal function, we prove the uniqueness of the nonlinear inverse problem of determining the orbit function by final data measured in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Yue Zhao

Variational inequalities play in many applications an important role and are an active research area. Optimal a priori error estimates in the natural energy norm do exist but only very few results in other norms exist. Here we consider as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Olaf Steinbach , Barbara Wohlmuth , Linus Wunderlich

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

This paper is concerning the inverse conductive scattering of acoustic waves by a bounded inhomogeneous object with possibly embedded obstacles inside. A new uniqueness theorem is proved that the conductive object is uniquely determined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Chengyu Wu , Jiaqing Yang

This is a continuation of our study [Uhlmann-Zhai, JMPA, 2021] on an inverse boundary value problem for a nonlinear elastic wave equation. We prove that all the linear and nonlinear coefficients can be recovered from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

We study the interior and exterior contact problems for hemitropic elastic solids. We treat the cases when the friction effects, described by Tresca friction (given friction model), are taken into consideration either on some part of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-25 A. Gachechiladze , R. Gachechiladze , J. Gwinner , D. Natroshvili

Estimation of solution norms and stability for time-dependent nonlinear systems is ubiquitous in numerous applied and control problems. Yet, practically valuable results are rare in this area. This paper develops a novel approach, which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Mark A. Pinsky , Steve Koblik

The first part of this paper is concerned with the uniqueness to inverse time-harmonic elastic scattering from bounded rigid obstacles in two dimensions. It is proved that a connected polygonal obstacle can be uniquely identified by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Johannes Elschner , Guanghui Hu

The recovery of anomalies from backscattering far field data is a long-standing open problem in inverse scattering theory. We make a first step in this direction by establishing the unique identifiability of convex impenetrable obstacles…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Jialei Li , Xiaodong Liu , Qingxiang Shi

The Kelvin problem of an isotropic elastic space subject to a concentrated load is solved in a manner that exploits the problem's built-in symmetries so as to determine in the first place the unique balanced and compatible stress field.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-09 Antonino Favata

In this paper, we prove in two dimensions global identifiability of the viscosity in an incompressible fluid by making boundary measurements. The main contribution of this work is to use more natural boundary measurements, the Cauchy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Ru-Yu Lai , Gunther Uhlmann , Jenn-Nan Wang

In this article, for the radiative transport equation, we study inverse problems of determining a time independent scattering coefficient or total attenuation by boundary data on the complementary sub-boundary after making one time input of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Manabu Machida , Masahiro Yamamoto

We present an inverse problem which uses the renormalized area functional on minimal submanifolds to recover the expansion of asymptotically hyperbolic, conformally compact metrics which are partially even to high order. We use a rigidity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Jared Marx-Kuo

In this paper we review some recent results concerning inverse problems for thin elastic plates. The plate is assumed to be made by non-homogeneous linearly elastic material belonging to a general class of anisotropy. A first group of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-28 Antonino Morassi , Edi Rosset , Sergio Vessella

We establish both Lipschitz and logarithmic stability estimates for an inverse flux problem and subsequently apply these results to an inverse boundary coefficient problem. Furthermore, we demonstrate how the stability inequalities derived…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Mourad Choulli , Shuai Lu , Hiroshi Takase

Writing the boundary integral equation for an exterior problem of elasticity is subordinate so far to hypotheses on the asymptotical behaviour at infinity of solutions. The sufficient conditions met in the literature are too restrictive and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alain Corfdir , Guy Bonnet

The paper derived differential equations which solve the problem of restoration the motion parameters for a rigid reference frame from the known proper acceleration and angular velocity of its origin as functions of proper time. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-18 Vitaliy Voytik

Inverse scattering focuses on recovering unknown scatterers from wave measurements. A fundamental challenge is determining whether an inverse obstacle problem can be resolved from a single far-field measurement, a task particularly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Longyue Tao

We develop a geometric version of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations for discrete mechanics and constrained discrete mechanics. The geometric approach consists of using suitable Lagrangian and isotropic submanifolds. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-09 María Barbero-Liñán , Marta Farré Puiggalí , Sebastián Ferraro , David Martín de Diego

In special relativity, testing for spatial anisotropy usually means testing for anisotropic propagation of light. This paper explores a different possibility, in which light is still assumed to propagate isotropically in all frames with an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-11-21 Alon Drory