Strong maximum principle for multi-term time-fractional diffusion equations and its application to an inverse source problem

DOI10.1016/J.CAMWA.2016.10.021zbMATH Open1368.35273arXiv1510.06878OpenAlexW1853203691MaRDI QIDQ2013708FDOQ2013708

Authors: Yikan Liu 

Publication date: 9 August 2017

Published in: Computers & Mathematics with Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we establish a strong maximum principle for fractional diffusion equations with multiple Caputo derivatives in time, and investigate a related inverse problem of practical importance. Exploiting the solution properties and the involved multinomial Mittag-Leffler functions, we improve the weak maximum principle for the multi-term time-fractional diffusion equation to a stronger one, which is parallel to that for its single-term counterpart as expected. As a direct application, we prove the uniqueness for determining the temporal component of the source term with the help of the fractional Duhamel's principle for the multi-term case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06878

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zbMATH Keywords

fractional diffusion equationinverse source problemmultinomial Mittag-Leffler functionstrong maximum principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30)

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