Identification of a time-dependent source term for a time fractional diffusion problem

In this paper, we study an inverse problem of identifying a time-dependent term of an unknown source for a time fractional diffusion equation using nonlocal measurement data. Firstly, we establish the conditional stability for this inverse problem. Then two regularization methods are proposed to for reconstructing the time-dependent source term from noisy measurements. The first method is an integral equation method which formulates the inverse source problem into an integral equation of the second kind; and a prior convergence rate of regularized solutions is derived with a suitable choice strategy of regularization parameters. The second method is a standard Tikhonov regularization method and formulates the inverse source problem as a minimizing problem of the Tikhonov functional. Based on the superposition principle and the technique of finite-element interpolation, a numerical scheme is proposed to implement the second regularization method. One- and two-dimensional examples are carried out to verify efficiency and stability of the second regularization method.     

Determination of source terms in a degenerate parabolic equation from a locally distributed observation

The aim of this Note is to prove a Lipschitz stability and uniqueness result for an inverse source problem relative to a one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equation. We use the method introduced by Imanuvilov and Yamamoto in 1998, with the help of some recent Carleman estimate for degenerate equations obtained by Cannarsa, Martinez and Vancostenoble.     

Inverse heat problem of determining time-dependent source parameter in reproducing kernel space

A new method by the reproducing kernel Hilbert space is applied to an inverse heat problem of determining a time-dependent source parameter. The problem is reduced to a system of linear equations. The exact and approximate solutions are both obtained in a reproducing kernel space. The approximate solution and its partial derivatives are proved to converge to the exact solution and its partial derivatives, respectively. The proposed method improves the existing method. Our numerical results show that the method is of high precision.     

A modified quasi-boundary value method for an inverse source problem of the time-fractional diffusion equation

In this paper, we consider an inverse source problem for a time-fractional diffusion equation with variable coefficients in a general bounded domain. That is to determine a space-dependent source term in the time-fractional diffusion equation from a noisy final data. Based on a series expression of the solution, we can transform the original inverse problem into a first kind integral equation. The uniqueness and a conditional stability for the space-dependent source term can be obtained. Further, we propose a modified quasi-boundary value regularization method to deal with the inverse source problem and obtain two kinds of convergence rates by using an a priori and an a posteriori regularization parameter choice rule, respectively. Numerical examples in one-dimensional and two-dimensional cases are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

一维半线性双曲型方程未知源的反问题

We concern the inverse problem of determination of unknown source term for one-dimensional hyperbolic half-linear equation. Approach form for inverse problem is given by using correlative problem of assistant. We concern more ordinary problem than this paper, which is turned into integral equation with the method of characteristic line. We prove the existence and uniqueness of part solution for inverse problem, and unknown source can be solved bv successive approximation.     

Recovering a space-dependent source term in a time-fractional diffusion wave equation

This work is concerned with identifying a space-dependent source function from noisy final time measured data in a time-fractional diffusion wave equation by a variational regularization approach. We provide a regularity of direct problem as well as the existence and uniqueness of adjoint problem. The uniqueness of the inverse source problem is discussed. Using the Tikhonov regularization method, the inverse source problem is formulated into a variational problem and a conjugate gradient algorithm is proposed to solve it. The efficiency and robust of the proposed method are supported by some numerical experiments.     

Uniqueness and nonuniqueness of the solution to the problem of determining the source in the heat equation

An initial–boundary value problem for the two-dimensional heat equation with a source is considered. The source is the sum of two unknown functions of spatial variables multiplied by exponentially decaying functions of time. The inverse problem is stated of determining two unknown functions of spatial variables from additional information on the solution of the initial–boundary value problem, which is a function of time and one of the spatial variables. It is shown that, in the general case, this inverse problem has an infinite set of solutions. It is proved that the solution of the inverse problem is unique in the class of sufficiently smooth compactly supported functions such that the supports of the unknown functions do not intersect. This result is extended to the case of a source involving an arbitrary finite number of unknown functions of spatial variables multiplied by exponentially decaying functions of time.     

The revised generalized Tikhonov regularization for the inverse time-dependent heat source problem

This paper investigates the inverse problem of finding a time-dependent heat source in a parabolic equation where the data is given at a fixed location. A conditional stability result is given, and a revised generalized Tikhonov regularization method with error estimate is also provided. Numerical examples show that the regularization method is effective and stable.     

WELL-POSEDNESS OF A PARABOLIC INVERSE PROBLEM

1.IntroductionItiswellknownthatinverseproblemsinpartialdifferentialequations,mostofwhichhavenotyetbeensolveduptonow,remainasachallengeinappliedmathematics.Therefore,manymathematiciansstudiedvariousinverseproblemsforparabolicequa-tions.FOrasimplesurveywereferto[1,2,8,9]foridentifyingcoefficients,[7]foridentifyingboundaryvalues,[4,10]foridentifyingsourcetermsofparabolicequations.Wehavenotincludedalotofpapersconcerningthecomputationalmethodsusedforsolvinginverseparabolicproblems.Inthispaperthein…     

Poisson方程热源识别反问题

探讨了半带状区域上二维Poisson方程只含有一个空间变量的热源识别反问题.这类问题是不适定的,即问题的解(如果存在的话)不连续依赖于测量数据.利用Carasso-Tikhonov正则化方法,得到了问题的一个正则近似解,并且给出了正则解和精确解之间具有Holder型误差估计.数值实验表明Carasso-Tikhonov正则化方法对于这种热源识别是非常有效的.     

SOURCE TERM IDENTIFICATION WITH DISCONTINUOUS DUAL RECIPROCITY APPROXIMATION AND QUASI-NEWTON METHOD FROM BOUNDARY OBSERVATIONS

This paper deals with discontinuous dual reciprocity boundary element method for solving an inverse source problem.The aim of this work is to determine the source term in elliptic equations for nonhomogenous anisotropic media,where some additional boundary measurements are required.An equivalent formulation to the primary inverse problem is established based on the minimization of a functional cost,where a regularization term is employed to eliminate the oscillations of the noisy data.Moreover,an efficient algorithm is presented and tested for some numerical examples.     

Simultaneous reconstruction of the surface heat flux and the source term in 3D linear parabolic problem by modified conjugate gradient method

Our work is devoted to an inverse problem for three‐dimensional parabolic partial differential equations. When the surface temperature data are given, the problem of reconstructing the heat flux and the source term is investigated. There are two main contributions of this paper. First, an adjoint problem approach is used for analysis of the Fréchet gradient of the cost functional. Second, an improved conjugate gradient method is proposed to solve this problem. Based on Lipschitz continuity of the gradient, the convergence analysis of the conjugate gradient algorithm is studied. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Uniqueness in an integral geometry problem and an inverse problem for the kinetic equation

In this paper, we discuss the uniqueness in an integral geometry problem along the straight lines in a strongly convex domain. Our problem is related with the problem of finding a Riemannian metric by the distances between all pairs of the boundary points. For the proof, the problem is reduced to an inverse source problem for a kinetic equation and then the uniqueness theorem is proved using the tools of Fourier analysis.     

Uniqueness for an inverse space-dependent source term in a multi-dimensional time-fractional diffusion equation

This paper is devoted to identify a space-dependent source term in a multi-dimensional time-fractional diffusion equation from boundary measured data. The uniqueness for the inverse source problem is proved by the Laplace transformation method.     

Landweber iterative method for an inverse source problem of time-fractional diffusion-wave equation on spherically symmetric domain

In this paper, an inverse source problem of time-fractional diffusion-wave equation on spherically symmetric domain is considered. In general, this problem is ill-posed. Landweber iterative method is used to solve this inverse source problem. The error estimates between the regularization solution and the exact solution are derived by an a-priori and an a-posteriori regularization parameters choice rules. The numerical examples are presented to verify the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed methods.     

On global behavior of solutions to an inverse problem for nonlinear parabolic equations

We find conditions on data guaranteeing global nonexistence of solutions to an inverse source problem for a class of nonlinear parabolic equations. We also establish a stability result on a bounded domain for a problem with the opposite sign on the power type nonlinearity.     

Simultaneous identification of diffusion coefficient,spacewise dependent source and initial value for one‐dimensional heat equation

This paper deals with an inverse problem of determining the diffusion coefficient, spacewise dependent source term, and the initial value simultaneously for a one‐dimensional heat equation based on the boundary control, boundary measurement, and temperature distribution at a given single instant in time. By a Dirichlet series representation for the boundary observation, the identification of the diffusion coefficient and initial value can be transformed into a spectral estimation problem of an exponential series with measurement error, which is solved by the matrix pencil method. For the identification of the source term, a finite difference approximation method in conjunction with the truncated singular value decomposition is adopted, where the regularization parameter is determined by the generalized cross‐validation criterion. Numerical simulations are performed to verify the result of the proposed algorithm. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

一类随机对流扩散方程的反源问题

考虑了一类由分数阶Brown运动驱动的随机对流扩散方程的源项反演问题。正问题部分首先利用分离变量法,得出了方程的温和解,进一步在期望的意义下,讨论了正问题的适定性。反问题部分研究了由终止时刻的随机数据来反演随机源项的部分统计量,并证明了相应的唯一性和不稳定性。最后进行了一些数值模拟,验证了相应的理论结果。     

A direct identification method for current dipoles from electromagnetic fields

We discuss the identification problem for current dipoles in a spherically symmetric conductor. This mathematical model is used for a biomedical inverse problem such as the source current identification for the human brain activity. We have already proposed a direct identification method for this inverse source problem using observations of the magnetic fields outside of the conductor. One of the difficulties of current dipole identification using the magnetic fields is caused by the fact that magnetic field does not include any information about the radial component of dipole moments. In this paper, we consider an improvement of the direct method to identify both radial and tangential components of current dipole moments by combining electric and magnetic observation data. Furthermore, our approach is effective in the case where the number of dipoles is unknown.     

The estimation of the strength of the heat source in the heat conduction problems

A general method is proposed to determine the strength of the heat source in the Fourier and non-Fourier heat conduction problems. A finite difference method, the concept of the future time and a modified Newton–Raphson method are adopted in the problem. The undetermined heat source at each time step is formulated as an unknown variable in a set of equations from the measured temperature and the calculated temperature. Then, an iterative process is used to solve the set of equations. No selected function is needed to represent the undetermined function in advance. Three examples are used to demonstrate the characteristics of the proposed method. The validity of the proposed method is confirmed by the numerical results. The results show that the proposed method is an accurate and stable method to determine the strength of the heat source in the inverse hyperbolic heat conduction problems. Furthermore, the result shows that more future times are needed in the hyperbolic equation than that of parabolic equation. Moreover, the robustness and the accuracy of the estimated results in the non-Fourier problem are not as well as those of the Fourier problem.