Related papers: An inverse problem for the heat equation

We study the the Dirichlet problem for the cross-diffusion system \[ \partial_tu_i=\operatorname{div}\left(a_iu_i\nabla (u_1+u_2)\right)+f_i(u_1,u_2),\quad i=1,2,\quad a_i=const>0, \] in the cylinder $Q=\Omega\times (0,T]$. The functions…

We study the following nonlinear heat equation with damping and pumping effects (a reaction-diffusion equation) posed on a bounded simply connected convex domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 1$ with Lipschitz boundary…

In this paper, an inverse initial-boundary value problem for the heat equation in three dimensions is studied. Assume that a three-dimensional heat conductive body contains several cavities of strictly convex. In the outside boundary of…

A general class of probability density functions \[u(x,t)=Ct^{-\alpha d}\left (1-\left (\frac{\|x\|}{ct^{\alpha}}\right )^{\beta}\right )_+^{\gamma},\quad x\in \mathbb{R}^d,t>0,\] is considered, containing as particular case the Barenblatt…

We consider in this work the crucial quantity $t_c$ that determines the critical inverse temperature $\beta_c$ in the $q$-state Potts model on sparse rank-1 random graphs where the vertices are equipped with a Pareto weight density…

We study the limit, when $k\to\infty$ of solutions of $u_t-\Delta u+f(u)=0$ in $R^N\times(0,\infty)$ with initial data $k\gd$, when $f$ is a positive increasing function. We prove that there exist essentially three types of possible…

In this paper we prove uniqueness in the inverse boundary value problem for the three coefficient functions in the porous medium equation with an absorption term $\epsilon\partial_t u-\nabla\cdot(\gamma\nabla u^m)+\lambda u^q=0$, with…

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…

The paper considers an inverse source problem for a one-dimensional time-fractional heat equation with the generalized impedance boundary condition. The inverse problem is the time dependent source parameter identification together with the…

We consider an inverse problem for the compressible Euler's equations in polytropic fluid. We show that by taking active measurements near a particle trajectory one can determine the background flow in a set where pressure waves can…

We examine the question of uniqueness for the equivariant reduction of the harmonic map heat flow in the energy supercritical dimension. It is shown that, generically, singular data can give rise to two distinct solutions which are both…

We consider the heat equation in a domain that has a hole in its interior. We impose a Neumann condition on the exterior boundary and a nonlinear Robin condition on the boundary of the hole. The shape of the hole is determined by a suitable…

For each $t \in \mathbf{R}$, define the entire function $$ H_t(z) := \int_0^\infty e^{tu^2} \Phi(u) \cos(zu)\ du$$ where $\Phi$ is the super-exponentially decaying function $$ \Phi(u) := \sum_{n=1}^\infty (2\pi^2 n^4 e^{9u} - 3\pi n^2…

Let $u,v \in \mathbb{R}^\Omega_+$ be positive unit vectors and $S\in\mathbb{R}^{\Omega\times\Omega}_+$ be a symmetric substochastic matrix. For an integer $t\ge 0$, let $m_t = \smash{\left\langle v,S^tu\right\rangle}$, which we view as the…

In this work, we investigate the estimation of the transient mold-slab heat flux in continuous casting molds given some thermocouples measurements in the mold plates. Mathematically, we can see this problem as the estimation of a Neumann…

We consider the highly nonlinear and ill-posed inverse problem of determining some general expression $F(x,t,u,\nabla_xu)$ appearing in the diffusion equation $\partial_tu-\Delta_x u+F(x,t,u,\nabla_xu)=0$ on $\Omega\times(0,T)$, with $T>0$…

We consider a *continuous* solution $u$ of the balance law \[ \partial_{\mathit t} u + \partial_{\mathit x} (f(u)) = g\] in one space dimension, where the flux function $f$ is of class $C^2$ and the source term $g$ is bounded. This equation…

Urbanization is the key contributor for climate change. Increasing urbanization rate causes an urban heat island (UHI) effect, which strongly depends on the short- and long-wave radiation balance heat flux between the surfaces. In order to…

Inverse scattering transform method of the heat equation is developed for a special subclass of potentials nondecaying at space infinity---perturbations of the one-soliton potential by means of decaying two-dimensional functions. Extended…

In this article a nonlocal analogue of an inverse problem in diffuse optical tomography is considered. We show that whenever one has given two pairs of diffusion and absorption coefficients $(\gamma_j,q_j)$, $j=1,2$, such that there holds…