Two regularization methods for a spherically symmetric inverse heat conduction problem

In this paper, we consider a spherically symmetric inverse heat conduction problem of determining the internal surface temperature of a hollow sphere from the measured data at a fixed location inside it. This is an ill-posed problem in the sense that the solution (if it exists) does not depend continuously on the data. A Tikhonov type’s regularization method and a Fourier regularization method are applied to formulate regularized solutions which are stably convergent to the exact ones with order optimal error estimates.     

An inverse problem of identifying the coefficient in a nonlinear parabolic equation

This paper deals with the determination of a pair (p,u) in the nonlinear parabolic equation

u_t−u_xx+p(x)f(u)=0,     

A multi-frequency inverse source problem

This paper is concerned with an inverse source problem that determines the source from measurements of the radiated fields away at multiple frequencies. Rigorous stability estimates are established when the background medium is homogeneous. It is shown that the ill-posedness of the inverse problem decreases as the frequency increases. Under some regularity assumptions on the source function, it is further proven that by increasing the frequency, the logarithmic stability converts to a linear one for the inverse source problem.     

An inverse problem for an elliptic equation with an affine term

We consider the following elliptic boundary value problem: on , u = 0 on where is a smooth bounded planar domain. We show that for a large class of domains and for any such that is not identically constant there exist at most finitely many different pairs of coefficients such that the problem has a solution with the normal flux on . Received: 4 February 1999     

Existence and uniqueness of a solution for a two dimensional nonlinear inverse diffusion problem

The problem of identifying the coefficient in a square porous medium is considered. It is shown that under certain conditions of data f,g, and for a properly specified class A of admissible coefficients, there exists at least one a∈A such that (a,u) is a solution of the corresponding inverse problem.     

An approximation problem in inverse scattering theory

In [3] a new method was introduced for solving the inverse scattering problem for acoustic waves in an inhomogeneous medium. This method is based on the solution of a new class of boundary value problems for the reduced wave equation called interior transmission problems. In this paper it is shown that if there is absorption there exists at most one solution to the interior transmission problem and an approximate solution can be found such that the metaharmonic part is a Herglotz wave function. These results provide the necessary theoretical basis for the inverse scattering method introduced in [3]     

Uniqueness for an inverse problem for a nonlinear parabolic system with an integral term by one-point Dirichlet data

We consider an inverse problem arising in laser-induced thermotherapy, a minimally invasive method for cancer treatment, in which cancer tissues is destroyed by coagulation. For the dosage planning quantitatively reliable numerical simulation are indispensable. To this end the identification of the thermal growth kinetics of the coagulated zone is of crucial importance. Mathematically, this problem is a nonlinear and nonlocal parabolic inverse heat source problem. We show in this paper that the temperature dependent thermal growth parameter can be identified uniquely from a one-point measurement.     

An inverse problem of identifying the coefficient of parabolic equation

This paper studies an inverse problem of identifying the coefficient of parabolic equation when the final observation is given, which has important application in a large fields of applied science. Based on the optimal control framework, the existence and necessary condition of the minimum for the control functional are established. Since the optimal control problem is nonconvex, one may not expect a unique solution. However, in this paper the solution is proved to be locally unique. After the necessary condition is transformed into an elliptic bilateral variational inequality, an algorithm and some numerical experiments are proposed in the paper. The numerical results show that the algorithm designed in this paper is stable and that the coefficient is recovered very well.     

On nonlinear boundary value problem corresponding to N-dimensional inverse spectral problem

We establish a relationship between an inverse optimization spectral problem for the N-dimensional Schrödinger equation $?\mathrm{\Delta }?+q(x)?=\lambda ?$ and a solution of the nonlinear boundary value problem $?\mathrm{\Delta }u+q(x)u=\lambda u?u^{\gamma ?1},u>0,u{|}_{?\mathrm{\Omega }}=0$. Using this relationship, we find an exact solution for the inverse optimization spectral problem, investigate its stability and obtain new results on the existence and uniqueness of the solution for the nonlinear boundary value problem.     

An inverse source problem for Maxwell's equations in anisotropic media

In this article, we consider nonstationary Maxwell's equations in an anisotropic medium in the (x ₁,?x ₂,?x ₃)-space, where equations of the divergences of electric and magnetic flux densities are also unknown. Then we discuss an inverse problem of determining the x ₃-independent components of the electric current density from observations on the plane x ₃?=?0 over a time interval. Our main aim is, study conditional stability in the inverse problem provided the permittivity and the permeability are independent of x ₃. The main tool is a new Carleman estimate.     

The inverse scattering problem for Schrödinger and Klein–Gordon equations with a nonlocal nonlinearity

We study the inverse scattering problem for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation and for the nonlinear Klein–Gordon equation with the generalized Hartree type nonlinearity. We reconstruct the nonlinearity from knowledge of the scattering operator, which improves the known results.     

An inverse problem of identifying the coefficient of first-order in a degenerate parabolic equation

This work studies an inverse problem of determining the first-order coefficient of degenerate parabolic equations using the measurement data specified at a fixed internal point. Being different from other ordinary parameter identification problems in parabolic equations, in our mathematical model there exists degeneracy on the lateral boundaries of the domain, which may cause the corresponding boundary conditions to go missing. By the contraction mapping principle, the uniqueness of the solution for the inverse problem is proved. A numerical algorithm on the basis of the predictor-corrector method is designed to obtain the numerical solution and some typical numerical experiments are also performed in the paper. The numerical results show that the proposed method is stable and the unknown function is recovered very well. The results obtained in the paper are interesting and useful, and can be extended to other more general inverse coefficient problems of degenerate PDEs.     

Stability estimates in inverse scattering

An algorithm is given for calculating the solution to the 3D inverse scattering problem with noisy discrete fixed energy data. The error estimates for the calculated solution are derived. The methods developed are of a general nature and can be used in many applications: in nondestructive evaluation and remote sensing, in geophysical exploration, medical diagnostics, and technology.     

An inverse spectral problem for the Laplacian

We propose an algorithm for the recovery of a potential from the knowledge of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian operator and the traces of its eigenfunctions. This inverse spectral problem is solved by recasting the operator as an infinite matrix and using transition matrices together with spectral projections on the boundary.     

On a nonstandard problem for heat conduction in a cylinder

Decay bounds are derived for the solution of a heat conduction problem in a semi-infinite cylinder when the lateral surface is held at zero temperature, a nonzero temperature is prescribed on the finite base, and the temperature at time T is prescribed to be a constant multiple of the temperature at initial time. Both energy and pointwise decay bounds are computed for a range of values of the constant multiple. Such problems were originally introduced as a means of stabilizing the backward-in-time problem for the heat equation.     

Reconstruction of two time independent coefficients in an inverse problem for a phase field system

In this paper we present stability results concerning the inverse problem of determining two time independent coefficients for a phase field system in a bounded domain Ω⊂Rⁿ for the dimension n≤3 with a single observation on a subdomain ω?Ω and the Sobolev norm of certain partial derivatives of the solutions at a fixed positive time θ∈(0,T) over the whole spatial domain. The proof of these results relies on an appropriate Carleman estimate for the phase field system.     

Rearrangements and minimization of the principal eigenvalue of a nonlinear Steklov problem

This paper, motivated by Del Pezzo et al. (2006) [1], discusses the minimization of the principal eigenvalue of a nonlinear boundary value problem. In the literature, this type of problem is called Steklov eigenvalue problem. The minimization is implemented with respect to a weight function. The admissible set is a class of rearrangements generated by a bounded function. We merely assume the generator is non-negative in contrast to [1], where the authors consider weights which are positively away from zero, in addition to being two-valued. Under this generality, more physical situations can be modeled. Finally, using rearrangement theory developed by Geoffrey Burton, we are able to prove uniqueness of the optimal solution when the domain of interest is a ball.     

Global existence and nonexistence of solutions for a viscoelastic wave equation with nonlinear boundary source term

In this paper, we consider the initial boundary value problem for a viscoelastic wave equation with nonlinear boundary source term. First of all, we introduce a family of potential wells and prove the invariance of some sets. Then we establish the existence and nonexistence of global weak solution with small initial energy under suitable assumptions on the relaxation function , nonlinear function , the initial data and the parameters in the equation. Furthermore, we obtain the global existence of weak solution for the problem with critical initial conditions and .     

Critical eigenvalues for a nonlinear problem

We study the application, , where is the supremum of positive s such that the problem admits a solution. Where B ₁ is the unit ball in We show that is a decreasing function, with where is the unique solution of the problem . We also give the explicit solutions of the problem , when and show that . We show that the problem doesnt admit a solution. In the end, we give a numerical approximation of , when .