On uniqueness and reconstruction of a nonlinear diffusion term in a parabolic equation

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2021.125145zbMATH Open1462.35461arXiv2101.06696OpenAlexW3138715415MaRDI QIDQ2020482FDOQ2020482

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

Publication date: 23 April 2021

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The problem of recovering coefficients in a diffusion equation is one of the basic inverse problems. Perhaps the most important term is the one that couples the length and time scales and is often referred to as {it the/} diffusion coefficient $a$ in $u_t-abla(aablau)=f$. In this paper we seek the unknown $a$ assuming that $a=a(u)$ depends only on the value of the solution at a given point. Such diffusion models are the basic of a wide range of physical phenomena such as nonlinear heat conduction, chemical mixing and population dynamics. We shall look at two types of overposed data in order to effect recovery of $a(u)$: the value of a time trace $u(x_0,t)$ for some fixed point $x_0$ on the boundary of the region $Omega$; or the value of $u$ on an interior curve $Sigma$ lying within $Omega$. As examples, these might represent a temperature measurement on the boundary or a census of the population in some subset of $Omega$ taken at a fixed time $T>0$. In the latter case we shall show a uniqueness result that leads to a constructive method for recovery of $a$. Indeed, for both types of measured data we shall show reconstructions based on the iterative algorithms developed in the paper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06696

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear diffusionreconstruction algorithms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasilinear parabolic equations (35K59) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30)

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