A new method for obtaining velocity and diffusivity from time-dependent distributions of a tracer via the maximum likelihood estimator for the advection-diffusion equation

DOI10.1006/jcph.1997.5674zbMath0889.65101OpenAlexW2020888356MaRDI QIDQ1360429

A. G. Ostrovskii, Leonid I. Piterbarg

Publication date: 31 August 1997

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1997.5674

zbMATH Keywords

inverse problemoceanographymaximum likelihoodfinite differenceadvection-diffusion equationocean heat diffusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Numerical methods for ill-posed problems for integral equations (65R30) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15) Numerical methods for ill-posed problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M30)

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