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For the heat equation in a bounded domain we give a stability result for a smooth diffusion coefficient. The key ingredients are a global Carleman-type estimate, a Poincar\'e-type estimate and an energy estimate with a single observation…

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In this article, we consider the diffusion equation with multi-term time-fractional derivatives. We first derive that the solution is positive when the source term is nonpositive by a subordination principle for the solution. As an…

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We investigate an inverse source problem of the time-harmonic elastic wave equation. Some novel sampling-type numerical schemes are proposed to identify the moment tensor point sources in the Lam\'e system from near-field measurements.…

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This work is concerned with the inverse source problem of locating multiple multipolar sources from boundary measurements for the Helmholtz equation. We develop simple and effective sampling schemes for location acquisition of the sources…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-18 Deyue Zhang , Yukun Guo , Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for the equation $\nabla\cdot(\sigma-i\omega\epsilon)\nabla u=0$ in a given bounded domain $\Omega$ at a fixed $\omega>0$. $\sigma$ and $\epsilon$ denote the conductivity and permittivity of the…

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We study the diffusion (or heat) equation on a finite 1-dimensional spatial domain, but we replace one of the boundary conditions with a "nonlocal condition", through which we specify a weighted average of the solution over the spatial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Peter D. Miller , David A. Smith

In this paper, we obtain the sharp uniqueness for an inverse $x$-source problem for a one-dimensional time-fractional diffusion equation with a zeroth-order term by the minimum possible lateral Cauchy data. The key ingredient is the unique…

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In this paper a wave is generated by an initial data whose support is localized at the outside of unknown obstacles and observed in a limited time on a known closed surface or the same position as the support of the initial data. The…

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We consider inverse potential scattering problems where the source of the incident waves is located on a smooth closed surface outside of the inhomogeneity of the media. The scattered waves are measured on the same surface at a fixed value…

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We consider a heat equation and a wave equation in a spatial interval over a time interval. This article deals with inverse problems of determining sizes of spatial intervals by extra boundary data of solutions of the governing equations.…

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The inverse problem of identifying the unknown spacewise dependent source F(x) in 1D wave equation is considered. Measured data are taken in the form g(t) := u(0; t). The relationship between that problem and Ground Penetrating Radar (GRR)…

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This paper addresses the direct and inverse source problems for the stochastic acoustic, biharmonic, electromagnetic, and elastic wave equations in a unified framework. The driven source is assumed to be a centered generalized microlocally…

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Consider the scattering of the two- or three-dimensional Helmholtz equation where the source of the electric current density is assumed to be compactly supported in a ball. This paper concerns the stability analysis of the inverse source…

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A heat equation with uncertain domains is thoroughly investigated. Statistical moments of the solution is approximated by the counterparts of the shape derivative. A rigorous proof for the existence of the shape derivative is presented.…

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We consider the inverse problem of determining the initial states or the source term of a hyperbolic equation damped by some non-local time-fractional derivative. This framework is relevant to medical imaging such as thermoacoustic or…

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This article addresses the inverse source problem for a nonlocal heat equation involving the fractional Laplacian. The primary goal is to reconstruct the spatial component of the source term from partial observations of the system's state…

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This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using…

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