Inverse problem for the diffusion equation in the case of spherical symmetry

The initial boundary value problem for the diffusion equation is considered in the case of spherical symmetry and an unknown initial condition. Additional information used for determining the unknown initial condition is an external volume potential whose density is the Laplace operator applied to the solution of the initial boundary value problem. The uniqueness of the solution of the inverse problem is studied depending on the parameters entering into the boundary conditions. It is shown that the solution of the inverse problem is either unique or not unique up to a one-dimensional linear subspace.     

Determining of three unknown functions of a semilinear ultraparabolic equation

In this paper, we consider the inverse problem for second‐order semilinear ultraparabolic equation. The equation has unknown function of time variable in its minor coefficient and two unknown functions of time and spacial variables in its right‐hand side. Initial, boundary, and integral type overdetermination conditions are posed. By using the properties of the solutions of the corresponding initial‐boundary value problem and the method of successive approximations, the sufficient conditions of the existence, and the uniqueness of the solution for the inverse problem are obtained on some time interval that depends on the coefficients of the equation.     

Smoothness effects of a quadratic damping term of mixed type on a chemotaxis-type system modeling propagation of urban crime

This paper focuses on the two-dimensional Neumann initial–boundary value problem of a chemotaxis-type system with a mixed-type quadratic damping term constituting of the product of two unknown functions. It is shown that such quadratic damping term seems sufficient to exclude the possibility of blowup in infinite time. Precisely, the first result indicates that for all reasonably regular initial data and any chemotatic sensitivity, the solution of the initial–boundary value problem is global in time within a suitable generalized framework. Meanwhile, the second result demonstrates that such generalized solution enjoys the eventual boundedness and regularity properties, i.e., it becomes bounded and smooth after some waiting time. Finally, a statement on the asymptotic stability of certain steady states is derived as a by-product.     

Application of Sinc-collocation method for solving an inverse problem

In this article, the identification of an unknown time-dependent source term in an inverse problem of parabolic type with nonlocal boundary conditions is considered. The main approach is to change the inverse problem to a system of Volterra integral equations. The resulting integral equations are convolution-type, which by using Sinc-collocation method, are replaced by a system of linear algebraic equations. The convergence analysis is included, and it is shown that the error in the approximate solution is bounded in the infinity norm by the norm of the inverse of the coefficient matrix multiplied by a factor that decays exponentially with the size of the system. To show the efficiency of the present method, an example is presented. The method is easy to implement and yields very accurate results.     

Determination of an unknown function in a parabolic inverse problem by Sinc‐collocation method

In this article, an inverse problem of determining an unknown time‐dependent source term of a parabolic equation is considered. We change the inverse problem to a Volterra integral equation of convolution‐type. By using Sinc‐collocation method, the resulting integral equation is replaced by a system of linear algebraic equations. The convergence analysis is included, and it is shown that the error in the approximate solution is bounded in the infinity norm by the condition number and the norm of the inverse of the coefficient matrix multiplied by a factor that decays exponentially with the size of the system. Some examples are given to demonstrate the computational efficiency of the method. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 27: 1584–1598, 2010     

实轴上的双解析函数Riemann边值逆问题

提出了一类实轴上的双解析函数Riemann边值逆问题.先消去参变未知函数,再采用易于推广的矩阵形式记法,可把问题转化为两个实轴上的解析函数Riemann边值问题.利用经典的Riemann边值问题理论,讨论了该问题正则型情况的解法,得到了它的可解性定理.     

Inverse problem for the diffusion equation with overdetermination in the form of an external volume potential

An initial-boundary value problem for the diffusion equation with an unknown initial condition is considered. Additional information used for determining the unknown initial condition is an external volume potential whose density is the Laplacian calculated for the solution of the initial-boundary value problem. Uniqueness theorems for the inverse problem are proved in the case when the spatial domain of the initial-boundary value problem is a spherical layer or a parallelepiped.     

Properties of Solutions for the Problem of a Joint Slow Motion of a Liquid and a Binary Mixture in a Two-Dimensional Channel

Under study is a conjugate boundary value problemdescribing a joint motion of a binary mixture and a viscous heat-conducting liquid in a two-dimensional channel, where the horizontal component of the velocity vector depends linearly on one of the coordinates. The problemis nonlinear and inverse because the systems of equations contain the unknown time functions—the pressure gradients in the layers. In the case of small Marangoni numbers (the so-called creeping flow) the problem becomes linear. For its solutions the two different integral identities are valid which allow us to obtain a priori estimates of the solution in the uniform metric. It is proved that if the temperature on the channel walls stabilizes with time then, as time increases, the solution of the nonstationary problem tends to a stationary solution by an exponential law.     

Recovering a source term in the time-fractional Burgers equation by an energy boundary functional equation

An inverse source problem for the recovery of an unknown space–time dependent source term of a time-fractional Burgers equation is solved in the paper. By using the prescribed boundary data, a sequence of boundary functions is derived, which together with the zero element constitute a linear space. An energy boundary functional equation is derived in the linear space, of which the time-dependent energy is preserved for each energy boundary function. The iterative algorithm used to recover the unknown source with energy boundary functions as the bases is developed, which is robust and convergent fast.     

On a coefficient inverse problem for a parabolic equation in a domain with free boundary

The present paper deals with the inverse problem of determination of the coefficient of the first derivative of the unknown function with respect to a spatial variable for a one-dimensional parabolic equation in the domain whose boundary is determined by two unknown functions. The conditions of local existence and uniqueness of a solution to the inverse problem are established.     

Recovery of a Rapidly Oscillating Source in the Heat Equation from Solution Asymptotics

Four problems are solved in which a high-frequency source in the one-dimensional heat equation with homogeneous initial–boundary conditions is recovered from partial asymptotics of its solution. It is shown that the source can be completely recovered from an incomplete (two-term) asymptotic representation of the solution. The formulation of each source recovery problem is preceded by constructing and substantiating asymptotics of the solution to the original initial–boundary value problem.     

Viscous Shock Motion for Advection-Diffusion Equations

This paper studies the asymptotic solution of the initial-boundary value problem for scalar convection-dominated evolution equations on a bounded spatial domain when initial and boundary conditions are such that the solution develops a single thin shock layer of steep change. The exponentially slow motion of the shock is determined for exponentially long times using an ansatz based on the solution for the special case of Burgers' equation, obtained through the Cole-Hopf transformation. Results obtained analytically are confirmed by numerical experiments.     

A problem of determining a special spatial part of 3D memory kernel in an integro‐differential hyperbolic equation

The inverse problem of determining 2D spatial part of integral member kernel in integro‐differential wave equation is considered. It is supposed that the unknown function is a trigonometric polynomial with respect to the spatial variable y with coefficients continuous with respect to the variable x. Herein, the direct problem is represented by the initial‐boundary value problem for the half‐space x>0 with the zero initial Cauchy data and Neumann boundary condition as Dirac delta function concentrated on the boundary of the domain . Local existence and uniqueness theorem for the solution to the inverse problem is obtained.     

On a singularly perturbed initial value problem in the case of a double root of the degenerate equation

We study the initial value problem of a singularly perturbed first order ordinary differential equation in case that the degenerate equation has a double root. We construct the formal asymptotic expansion of the solution such that the boundary layer functions decay exponentially. This requires a modification of the standard procedure. The asymptotic solution will be used to construct lower and upper solutions guaranteeing the existence of a unique solution and justifying its asymptotic expansion.     

Boundary Value Problems for the Elliptic Sine-Gordon Equation in a Semi-strip

We study boundary value problems posed in a semistrip for the elliptic sine-Gordon equation, which is the paradigm of an elliptic integrable PDE in two variables. We use the method introduced by one of the authors, which provides a substantial generalization of the inverse scattering transform and can be used for the analysis of boundary as opposed to initial-value problems. We first express the solution in terms of a 2×2 matrix Riemann–Hilbert problem whose “jump matrix” depends on both the Dirichlet and the Neumann boundary values. For a well posed problem one of these boundary values is an unknown function. This unknown function is characterised in terms of the so-called global relation, but in general this characterisation is nonlinear. We then concentrate on the case that the prescribed boundary conditions are zero along the unbounded sides of a semistrip and constant along the bounded side. This corresponds to a case of the so-called linearisable boundary conditions, however, a major difficulty for this problem is the existence of non-integrable singularities of the function q _y at the two corners of the semistrip; these singularities are generated by the discontinuities of the boundary condition at these corners. Motivated by the recent solution of the analogous problem for the modified Helmholtz equation, we introduce an appropriate regularisation which overcomes this difficulty. Furthermore, by mapping the basic Riemann–Hilbert problem to an equivalent modified Riemann–Hilbert problem, we show that the solution can be expressed in terms of a 2×2 matrix Riemann–Hilbert problem whose “jump matrix” depends explicitly on the width of the semistrip L, on the constant value d of the solution along the bounded side, and on the residues at the given poles of a certain spectral function denoted by h(λ). The determination of the function h remains open.     

Global Perturbation of the Riemann Problem for the System of Compressible Flow Through Porous Media

In this paper we consider the unperturbatcd and perturbated Riemann problem for the damped quasiliuear hyperbolic system {v_t - u_x = 0 u_t + p(v)_x = -αu, α > 0, p'(v} < 0 with initial structure of two rarefaction waves or one rarefaction wave plus one shock wave. Under certain restrictions, it admits a unique global discontinuous solution in a class of piecewise continuous and piecewise smooth functions and keeps the initial structure. Moreover, the shock strength is found decaying exponentially due to damping for the later case.     

Inverse Problem for an Integro-Differential Equation of Acoustics

We consider the hyperbolic integro-differential equation of acoustics. The direct problem is to determine the acoustic pressure created by a concentrated excitation source located at the boundary of a spatial domain from the initial boundary-value problem for this equation. For this direct problem, we study the inverse problem, which consists in determining the onedimensional kernel of the integral term from the known solution of the direct problem at the point x = 0 for t &gt; 0. This problem reduces to solving a system of integral equations in unknown functions. The latter is solved by using the principle of contraction mapping in the space of continuous functions. The local unique solvability of the posed problem is proved.     

A general solution of the diffusion equation for semiinfinite geometries

The solution of the time-dependent diffusion equation in a semiinfinite planar, cylindrical, or spherical geometry with common initial and asymptotic boundary conditions is considered. It is shown that this boundary value problem may be described by a single equation which involves only a first order spatial derivative and a half order time derivative. The replacement is exact in the planar and spherical geometry cases but approximate in the cylindrical case. This replacement permits the solution of the original boundary value problem to be written for any boundary condition at the origin. It also leads to a simple relationship between the boundary flux and the boundary intensive variable, which does not require a calculation of the intensive variable at all positions and times.     

一非线性发展方程的反问题

研究一非线性发展方程的未知源项的反演问题.首先,把所考虑的初边值问题化成一等价非线性发展方程的Cauchy问题;然后,利用半群理论,论证反问题解的存在性和唯一性;最后,利用压缩映射不动点方法,得到反问题的可解性.     

Determination of the source parameter in a heat equation with a non-local boundary condition

In this article we consider the inverse problem of identifying a time dependent unknown coefficient in a parabolic problem subject to initial and non-local boundary conditions along with an overspecified condition defined at a specific point in the spatial domain. Due to the non-local boundary condition, the system of linear equations resulting from the backward Euler approximation have a coefficient matrix that is a quasi-tridiagonal matrix. We consider an efficient method for solving the linear system and the predictor–corrector method for calculating the solution and updating the estimate of the unknown coefficient. Two model problems are solved to demonstrate the performance of the methods.