Detecting a Prey in a Spider Orb Web

DOI10.1137/19M1262322MaRDI QIDQ5205881zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexandre Kawano, Antonino Morassi

Publication date 17 December 2019

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03610

zbMATH Keywords

identification of sourcesinverse problemsmembranespider orb web modelvibration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Vibrations in dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H45) Membranes (74K15)

Abstract: We consider the inverse problem of localizing a prey hitting a spider orb-web from dynamic measurements taken near the center of the web, where the spider is supposed to stay. The actual discrete orb-web, formed by a finite number of radial and circumferential threads, is modelled as a continuous membrane. The membrane has a specific fibrous structure, which is inherited from the original discrete web, and it is subject to tensile pre-stress in the referential configuration. The transverse load describing the prey's impact is assumed of the form $g(t)f(x)$, where $g(t)$ is a known function of time and $f(x)$ is the unknown term depending on the position variable $x$. For axially-symmetric orb-webs supported at the boundary and undergoing infinitesimal transverse deformations, we prove a uniqueness result for $f(x)$ in terms of measurements of the transverse dynamic displacement taken on an arbitrarily small and thin ring centered at the origin of the web, for a sufficiently large interval of time.

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