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Inverse Problems of Determining Coefficients of the Fractional Partial Differential Equations
When considering fractional diffusion equation as model equation in analyzing
anomalous diffusion processes, some important parameters in the model, for
example, the orders of the fractional derivative or the source term, are often
unknown, which requires one to discuss inverse problems to identify these
physical quantities from some additional information that can be observed or
measured practically. This chapter investigates several kinds of inverse
coefficient problems for the fractional diffusion equation
Recovery of a space-dependent vector source in thermoelastic systems
In this contribution, an inverse problem of determining a space-dependent vector source in a thermoelastic system of type-I, type-II and type-III is studied using information from a supplementary measurement at a fixed time. These thermoelastic systems consist of two equations that are coupled: a parabolic equation for the temperature
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and a vectorial hyperbolic equation for the displacement
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. In this latter one, the source is unknown, but solely space dependent. A spacewise-dependent additional measurement at the final time ensures that the inverse problem corresponding with each type of thermoelasticity has a unique solution when a damping term
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(with
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componentwise strictly monotone increasing) is present in the hyperbolic equation. Despite the ill-posed nature of these inverse problems, a stable iterative algorithm is proposed to recover the unknown source in the case that
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is also linear. This method is based on a sequence of well-posed direct problems, which are numerically solved at each iteration, step by step, using the finite element method. The instability of the inverse source problem is overcome by stopping the iterations at the first iteration for which the discrepancy principle is satisfied. Numerical results support the theoretically obtained results
Inverse Problems of Determining Sources of the Fractional Partial Differential Equations
In this chapter, we mainly review theoretical results on inverse source
problems for diffusion equations with the Caputo time-fractional derivatives of
order . Our survey covers the following types of inverse
problems: 1. determination of time-dependent functions in interior source terms
2. determination of space-dependent functions in interior source terms 3.
determination of time-dependent functions appearing in boundary condition
Inverse source problems for degenerate time-fractional PDE
In this paper, we investigate two inverse source problems for degenerate
time-fractional partial differential equation in rectangular domains. The first
problem involves a space-degenerate partial differential equation and the
second one involves a time-degenerate partial differential equation. Solutions
to both problem are expressed in series expansions. For the first problem, we
obtained solutions in the form of Fourier-Legendre series. Convergence and
uniqueness of solutions have been discussed. Solutions to the second problem
are expressed in the form of Fourier-Sine series and they involve a generalized
Mittag- Leffler type function. Moreover, we have established a new estimate for
this generalized Mittag-Leffler type function. The obtained results are
illustrated by providing example solutions using certain given data at the
initial and final time.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure
Numerical identification of a nonlinear diffusion law via regularization in Hilbert scales
We consider the reconstruction of a diffusion coefficient in a quasilinear
elliptic problem from a single measurement of overspecified Neumann and
Dirichlet data. The uniqueness for this parameter identification problem has
been established by Cannon and we therefore focus on the stable solution in the
presence of data noise. For this, we utilize a reformulation of the inverse
problem as a linear ill-posed operator equation with perturbed data and
operators. We are able to explicitly characterize the mapping properties of the
corresponding operators which allow us to apply regularization in Hilbert
scales. We can then prove convergence and convergence rates of the regularized
reconstructions under very mild assumptions on the exact parameter. These are,
in fact, already needed for the analysis of the forward problem and no
additional source conditions are required. Numerical tests are presented to
illustrate the theoretical statements.Comment: 17 pages, 2 figure
Parameter identification in a semilinear hyperbolic system
We consider the identification of a nonlinear friction law in a
one-dimensional damped wave equation from additional boundary measurements.
Well-posedness of the governing semilinear hyperbolic system is established via
semigroup theory and contraction arguments. We then investigte the inverse
problem of recovering the unknown nonlinear damping law from additional
boundary measurements of the pressure drop along the pipe. This coefficient
inverse problem is shown to be ill-posed and a variational regularization
method is considered for its stable solution. We prove existence of minimizers
for the Tikhonov functional and discuss the convergence of the regularized
solutions under an approximate source condition. The meaning of this condition
and some arguments for its validity are discussed in detail and numerical
results are presented for illustration of the theoretical findings
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