An inverse problem for supersonic flow past a curved wedge

This paper studies an inverse problem for supersonic potential flow past a curved wedge, in which we design a suitable curved wedge such that the shock produced by the curved wedge can be controlled to the given position. Under suitable conditions, by characteristic method, we prove the existence of the global classical solution to this inverse problem and develop an optimal decay rate on the given shock’s second order derivatives. We finally construct a specific wedge such that the shock generated by the wedge is a convex combined one.     

Stability of transonic shock for supersonic flow past a wedge

When steady supersonic flow hits a slim wedge, there may appear an oblique transonic shock attached to the vertex of the wedge, if the downstream pressure is rather large. This paper studies stability in certain weighted partial Hölder spaces of the oblique transonic shock attached to the vertex of a wedge, which is against steady supersonic flows, under perturbations of the upstream flow and the profile of the wedge. We show that under reasonable conditions on the upcoming supersonic flow and the slope of the wedge, such transonic shocks are structural stable. Mathematically, we solve an elliptic–hyperbolic mixed type in an unbounded domain, and the flow field is proved to be C¹. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Stability of transonic shocks for the full Euler system in supersonic flow past a wedge

We study the stability of transonic shocks in steady supersonic flow past a wedge. It is known that in generic case such a problem admits two possible locations of the shock front, connecting the flow ahead of it and behind it. They can be distinguished as supersonic–supersonic shock and supersonic–subsonic shock (or transonic shock). Both these possible shocks satisfy the Rankine–Hugoniot conditions and the entropy condition. We prove that the transonic shock is conditionally stable under perturbation of the upstream flow or perturbation of wedge boundary. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Steady supersonic flow past a curved cone

This paper studies the steady supersonic flow past a Lipschitz curved cone. Under the assumptions that the cone has an opening angle less than a critical value and has sufficiently small total variation of the tangent of the perturbation and that the Mach number of incoming flow is sufficiently large, the global weak solution is constructed via Glimm scheme for 1<γ<3.     

Supersonic flow past a concave double wedge

The supersonic flow past a concave double wedge is discussed. Because of the interaction between the outer shock attached at the head of the wedge and the inner shock issued from the concave corner, there is a rarefaction wave issued from the intersection of the outer and inner shock. The rarefaction wave is reflected by the outer shock and the wedge infinitely, while the outer shock is also bent due to interaction. The global existence of the solution is proved under the assumptions that the outer shock is weak and the difference of two slopes of the double wedge is small. Meanwhile, a rigorous proof of the asymptotic behavior of the global solution is given. The property is often ap plied to numerical computation. Project partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Doctoral Programme Foundation of IHEC.     

The forward and inverse problems for a fractional boundary value problem

In this paper, the authors study the forward and inverse problems for a fractional boundary value problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The existence and uniqueness of solutions for the forward problem is first proved. Then an inverse source problem is considered.     

An inverse coefficient problem for a quasilinear parabolic equation with periodic boundary and integral overdetermination condition

In this paper, the inverse problem of finding the time‐dependent coefficient of heat capacity together with the solution periodic boundary and integral overdetermination conditions is considered. Under some natural regularity and consistency conditions on the input data, the existence, uniqueness, and continuous dependence upon the data of the solution are shown. Some considerations on the numerical solution for this inverse problem are presented with an example. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Global existence of shock for the supersonic Euler flow past a curved 2-D wedge

In this paper, we study the global existence of the supersonic shock for the steady supersonic Euler flow past a curved 2-D wedge. By using the method of characteristic, we show that the shock exists globally and the flow between the shock and wedge is continuous provided the wedge is a small perturbation of a straight wedge under a weighted global Sobolev norm and the vertex angle is less than the extreme angle.     

Stability estimate for an inverse problem for the wave equation in a magnetic field

In this article, we prove stability estimate of the inverse problem of determining the magnetic field entering the magnetic wave equation in a bounded smooth domain in ? ^d from boundary observations. This information is enclosed in the hyperbolic (dynamic) Dirichlet-to-Neumann map associated to the solutions to the magnetic wave equation. We prove in dimension d ≥ 2 that the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for the magnetic wave equation measured on the boundary determines uniquely the magnetic field and we prove a Hölder-type stability in determining the magnetic field induced by the magnetic potential.     

Exact boundary controllability for a kind of second‐order quasilinear hyperbolic systems and its applications

In this paper, by means of a constructive method based on the existence and uniqueness of the semi‐global C² solution, we establish the local exact boundary controllability for a kind of second‐order quasilinear hyperbolic systems. As an application, we obtain the one‐sided local exact boundary controllability for the first‐order quasilinear hyperbolic systems of diagonal form with boundary conditions in which the diagonal variables corresponding to the positive eigenvalues and those corresponding to the negative eigenvalues are decoupled. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On a first boundary value problem for hyperbolic equations in the plane

In the paper we study a boundary value problem for a hyperbolic equation with two independent variables; this problem is a generalization of the well-known Darboux problem. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 294–306, February, 1999.     

Enhanced Euler's method to a free boundary porous media flow problem

We study an ODE‐based iterative method, the residual velocity method, for steady state free boundary problems. The convergence analysis of the method, as well as the numerical implementation based on Euler's method were provided by Donaldson and Wetton (J Appl Math 71 (2006), 877–897). In this article, we develop an enhanced Euler's method which is nearly as simple as the modified Euler's method but can achieve a rapid convergence rate similar to the fourth‐order Runge‐Kutta method. Numerical results are also provided to verify the validity of our method. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 2012     

Exact boundary observability for a kind of second-order quasilinear hyperbolic system

In this paper, by means of a constructive method based on the existence and uniqueness of the semi-global classical solution, we establish the local exact boundary observability for a kind of second-order quasilinear hyperbolic system in which the number of positive eigenvalues and the number of negative ones are not equal. As an application, we obtain the one-sided local exact boundary observability and two-sided local exact boundary observability with fewer observed values for first-order quasilinear hyperbolic systems of diagonal form with boundary conditions in which the diagonal variables corresponding to the positive eigenvalues and those corresponding to the negative ones are decoupled.     

Stability of Calderón inverse conductivity problem in the plane

It is proved that, in two dimensions, the Calderón inverse conductivity problem in Lipschitz domains is stable when the conductivities are Hölder continuous with any exponent α>0.     

Carleman estimates for second-order hyperbolic systems in anisotropic cases and applications. Part II: an inverse source problem

In this paper, we consider Carleman-type estimate and consider an inverse problem for second order hyperbolic systems in an anisotropic case. In the previous Part I paper, we established a Carleman-type estimate for hyperbolic systems in which the coefficient matrices satisfy suitable conditions. We apply a Carleman estimate in the previous Part I paper to an inverse source problem for second-order hyperbolic systems in an anisotropic case and prove an estimate of the Hölder type.     

Exact Boundary Observability for a Kind of Second-Order Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems

Based on the theory of semi-global classical solutions to quasilinear hyperbolic systems, the local exact boundary observability for a kind of second-order quasilinear hyperbolic systems is obtained by a constructive method.     

The inverse scattering problem for a partially coated cavity with interior measurements

We consider the interior inverse scattering problem of recovering the shape and the surface impedance of an impenetrable partially coated cavity from a knowledge of measured scatter waves due to point sources located on a closed curve inside the cavity. First, we prove uniqueness of the inverse problem, namely, we show that both the shape of the cavity and the impedance function on the coated part are uniquely determined from exact data. Then, based on the linear sampling method, we propose an inversion scheme for determining both the shape and the boundary impedance. Finally, we present some numerical examples showing the validity of our method.     

The enclosure method for an inverse problem arising from a spot welding

A two dimensional version of a reconstruction problem of an unknown weld on the interface between two electric conductive plates is considered. It is assumed that the two plates have a same known isotropic homogeneous conductivity, and the line where the welding area is located is known. Under these assumptions, an explicit extraction formula of the location of the tips of the welding area on the line from a single set of an electric current density and the corresponding voltage potential on the boundary of the material formed by the plates is given. This result may have possibility of application to quality evaluation of spot welding fixation strength of a lamina. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Inverse scattering problem for nonstationary Dirac-type systems on the plane

In this paper the forward and inverse scattering problems for the nonstationary Dirac-type systems on the plane are considered. The scattering data for the inverse scattering problem (ISP) is defined and a unique restoration of the potential from the scattering data is proved.