An undetermined time-dependent coefficient in a fractional diffusion equation

DOI10.3934/IPI.2017041zbMATH Open1386.35463arXiv1708.07756OpenAlexW2742159529MaRDI QIDQ2013864FDOQ2013864

Authors: Zhidong Zhang 

Publication date: 9 August 2017

Published in: Inverse Problems and Imaging (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this work, we consider a FDE (fractional diffusion equation) ${\displaystyle }${}^C D_t^alpha u(x,t)-a(t)mathcal{L} u(x,t)=F(x,t)${\displaystyle }$ with a time-dependent diffusion coefficient $a(t)$. For the direct problem, given an $a(t),$ we establish the existence, uniqueness and some regularity properties with a more general domain $Omega$ and right-hand side $F(x,t)$. For the inverse problem--recovering $a(t),$ we introduce an operator $K$ one of whose fixed points is $a(t)$ and show its monotonicity, uniqueness and existence of its fixed points. With these properties, a reconstruction algorithm for $a(t)$ is created and some numerical results are provided to illustrate the theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07756

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zbMATH Keywords

monotonicityexistenceuniquenessfractional diffusioniteration algorithmfractional inverse problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Numerical methods for inverse problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M32)

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