A note on uniqueness in the identification of a spacewise dependent source and diffusion coefficient for the heat equation

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Authors: A. De Cezaro, B. Tomas Johansson 

Publication date: 27 October 2012

Abstract: We investigate uniqueness in the inverse problem of reconstructing simultaneously a spacewise conductivity function and a heat source in the parabolic heat equation from the usual conditions of the direct problem and additional information from a supplementary temperature measurement at a given single instant of time. In the multi-dimensional case, we use Carleman estimates for parabolic equations to obtain a uniqueness result. The given data and the solution domain are sufficiently smooth such that the required norms and the derivatives of the conductivity, the source and the solution of the parabolic heat equation exist and are continuous throughout the solution domain. These assumptions can be further relaxed using more involved estimates and techniques but these lengthy details are not included. Instead, in the special case of the one-dimensional heat equation, we give an alternative and rather straightforward proof of uniqueness of the inverse problem, based on integral representations of the solution together with density results for solutions of the corresponding adjoint problem. In this case, the required regularity conditions on the conductivity, source and the solution of the parabolic heat equation are weakened to classes of integrable functions. Keywords: uniqueness; spacewise conductivity and source; final time measurements; heat equation; Carleman estimates.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Heat equation (35K05) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Numerical methods for inverse problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M32) Thermal effects in solid mechanics (74F05) Numerical solution of inverse problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L09)

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