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Of primary interest in this paper is the numerical approximation of a time dependent fractional, in space, diffusion equation where the domain is assumed to be nonhomogeneous, having different axial diffusion coefficients. This work is…

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This study addresses the inverse source problem for the fractional diffusion-wave equation, characterized by a source comprising spatial and temporal components. The investigation is primarily concerned with practical scenarios where data…

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The work is devoted to the study of the inverse problem of determining the right-hand side of a nonlinear subdiffusion equation with a Caputo derivative with respect to time. Nonlinearity of the equation means that the right-hand side of…

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We study two new classes of inverse problems for a time-switched system in which a fractional wave equation (with Caputo derivative of order $\alpha \in (1,2)$) governs the dynamics on the interval $[0,a)$, and a fractional diffusion…

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Tracer tests in natural porous media sometimes show abnormalities that suggest considering a fractional variant of the Advection Diffusion Equation supplemented by a time derivative of non-integer order. We are describing an inverse method…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-30 Boris Maryshev , Alain Cartalade , Christelle Latrille , Marie-Christine Néel

We consider the inverse source problem of determining a source term depending on both time and space variable for fractional and classical diffusion equations in a cylindrical domain from boundary measurements. With suitable boundary…

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An initial-boundary value problem for a subdiffusion equation with an elliptic operator $A(D)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$ is considered. The existence and uniqueness theorems for a solution of this problem are proved by the Fourier method.…

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In this paper, we discuss an initial-boundary value problem (IBVP) for the multi-term time-fractional diffusion equation with x-dependent coefficients. By means of the Mittag-Leffler functions and the eigenfunction expansion, we reduce the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Zhiyuan Li , Xinchi Huang , Masahiro Yamamoto

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 consider initial boundary value problems for one-dimensional diffusion equation with time-fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ which are subject to non-zero Neumann boundary conditions. We prove the uniqueness for an inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-25 W. Rundell , M. Yamamoto

This paper considers the inverse problem of recovering state-dependent source terms in a reaction-diffusion system from overposed data consisting of the values of the state variables either at a fixed finite time (census-type data) or a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

We consider initial boundary value problems of time-fractional advection-diffusion equations with the zero Dirichlet boundary value $\partial_t^{\alpha} u(x,t) = -Au(x,t)$, where $-A = \sum}{i,j=1}^d \partial_i(a_{ij}(x)\partial_j) +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Masahiro Yamamoto

We investigate global uniqueness for an inverse problem for a nonlocal diffusion equation on domains that are bounded in one direction. The coefficients are assumed to be unknown and isotropic on the entire space. We first show that the…

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In this work we investigate an inverse problem of recovering a time-dependent potential in a semilinear subdiffusion model from an integral measurement of the solution over the domain. The model involves the Djrbashian--Caputo fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Bangti Jin , Kwancheol Shin , Zhi Zhou

This paper addresses the inverse source problem for a mixed-type fractional wave-diffusion-wave equation posed in a cylindrical domain. The governing equation involves a time-dependent variable-order fractional derivative, which enables the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Erkinjon Karimov , Muzaffar Toshpulatov

This paper delves into the Inverse Stefan problem, specifically focusing on determining the time-dependent source coefficient in the parabolic heat equation governing heat transfer in a semi-infinite rod. The problem entails the intricate…

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This paper deals with the inverse problem of recovering an arbitrary number of fractional damping terms in a wave equation. We develop several approaches on uniqueness and reconstruction, some of them relying on Tauberian theorems on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

This paper is concerned with the inverse spectral problem for the third-order differential equation with distribution coefficient. The inverse problem consists in the recovery of the differential expression coefficients from the spectral…

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