Uniqueness from pointwise observations in a multi-parameter inverse problem

DOI10.3934/CPAA.2012.11.173MaRDI QIDQ1947853zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michel Cristofol, Jimmy Garnier, François Hamel, Lionel Roques

Publication date 29 April 2013

Published in Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5570

zbMATH Keywords

counter-examplesheterogeneous mediainverse problemmulti-parameterreaction-diffusion equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Numerical methods for inverse problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M32)

Abstract: In this paper, we prove a uniqueness result in the inverse problem of determining several non-constant coefficients of one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations. Such reaction-diffusion equations include the classical model of Kolmogorov, Petrovsky and Piskunov as well as more sophisticated models from biology. When the reaction term contains an unknown polynomial part of degree $N,$ with non-constant coefficients $m{u}_k(x),$ our result gives a sufficient condition for the uniqueness of the determination of this polynomial part. This sufficient condition only involves pointwise measurements of the solution $u$ of the reaction-diffusion equation and of its spatial derivative $partialu/partialx$ at a single point $x_0,$ during a time interval $(0,epsilon).$ In addition to this uniqueness result, we give several counter-examples to uniqueness, which emphasize the optimality of our assumptions. Finally, in the particular cases N=2 and $N=3,$ we show that such pointwise measurements can allow an efficient numerical determination of the unknown polynomial reaction term.

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