Recovering of damping coefficients for a system of coupled wave equations with Neumann boundary conditions: uniqueness and stability (Q741446)

Based on authors' abstract: The paper is aimed to study the problem of recovering damping coefficients for a system of two hyperbolic equations with Neumann boundary conditions by means of an additional measurement of Dirichlet boundary traces of the two solutions on a suitable explicit subset \(\Gamma_1\) of the boundary \(\Gamma\) over a sufficiently large time interval \((0;T)\), \(T>0\). Under sharp conditions on \(\Gamma_0=\Gamma \setminus \Gamma_1\) the uniqueness and stability of the damping coefficients are established. The proof uses the Carleman estimates and a convenient tactical route ``post-Carleman estimates'' suggested by \textit{V. Isakov} [Inverse problems for partial differential equations. 2nd ed. Applied Mathematical Sciences 127. New York, NY: Springer (2006; Zbl 1092.35001)].