On the identification of a nonlinear term in a reaction-diffusion equation

DOI10.1088/1361-6420/AB2AABzbMATH Open1427.35359arXiv1905.12067OpenAlexW2947730536MaRDI QIDQ5236702FDOQ5236702

Authors: Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell 

Publication date: 10 October 2019

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

Abstract: Reaction-diffusion equations are one of the most common partial differential equations used to model physical phenomenon. They arise as the combination of two physical processes: a driving force $f(u)$ that depends on the state variable $u$ and a diffusive mechanism that spreads this effect over a spatial domain. The canonical form is $u_t-riangleu=f(u)$. Application areas include chemical processes, heat flow models and population dynamics. The direct or forwards problem for such equations is now very well-developed and understood. However, our interest lies in the inverse problem of recovering the reaction term $f(u)$ not just at the level of determining a few parameters in a known functional form, but recovering the complete functional form itself. To achieve this we set up the usual paradigm for the parabolic equation where $u$ is subject to both given initial and boundary data, then prescribe overposed data consisting of the solution at a later time $T$. For example, in the case of a population model this amounts to census data at a fixed time. Our approach will be two-fold.First we will transform the inverse problem into an equivalent nonlinear mapping from which we seek a fixed point. We will be able to prove important features of this map such as a self-mapping property and give conditions under which it is contractive. Second, we consider the direct map from $f$ through the partial differential operator to the overposed data. We will investigate Newton schemes for this case. In recent decades various anomalous processes have been used to generalize classical Brownian diffusion. Amongst the most popular is one that replaces the usual time derivative by a fractional one of order $alphaleq1$. We will also include this model in our analysis. The final section of the paper shows numerical reconstructions that demonstrate the viability of the suggested approaches.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12067

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zbMATH Keywords

regularizationparameter identificationreaction-diffusion equationfractional diffusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30)

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