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An inverse Sturm-Liouville problem with a fractional derivative
In this paper, we numerically investigate an inverse problem of recovering
the potential term in a fractional Sturm-Liouville problem from one spectrum.
The qualitative behaviors of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are discussed,
and numerical reconstructions of the potential with a Newton method from finite
spectral data are presented. Surprisingly, it allows very satisfactory
reconstructions for both smooth and discontinuous potentials, provided that the
order of fractional derivative is sufficiently away from 2.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of
Computational Physic
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
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