This paper considers an inverse problem for a partial differential equation to identify a pollution point source in a watershed. The mathematical model of the problem is a weakly coupled system of two linear parabolic...This paper considers an inverse problem for a partial differential equation to identify a pollution point source in a watershed. The mathematical model of the problem is a weakly coupled system of two linear parabolic equations for the concentrations u(x, t) and v(x, t) with an unknown point source F(x, t) = A( t)δ(x- s) related to the concentration u(x, t), where s is the point source location and A(t) is the amplitude of the pollution point source. Assuming that source F becomes inactive after time T*, it is proved that it can be uniquely determined by the indirect measurements { v(0, t), v( a, t), v( b, t), v( l, t), 0 〈 t ≤ T, T* 〈 T}, and, thus, the local Lipschitz stability for this inverse source problem is obtained. Based on the proof of its uniqueness, an inversion scheme is presented to determine the point source. Finally, two numerical examples are given to show the feasibility of the inversion scheme.展开更多
The authors investigate an inverse problem of determining the radiative coefficient in a degenerate parabolic equation from the final overspecified data. Being different from other inverse coefficient problems in whic...The authors investigate an inverse problem of determining the radiative coefficient in a degenerate parabolic equation from the final overspecified data. Being different from other inverse coefficient problems in which the principle coefficients are assumed to be strictly positive definite, the mathematical model discussed in this paper belongs to the second order parabolic equations with non-negative characteristic form, namely, there exists a degeneracy on the lateral boundaries of the domain. Based on the optimal control framework, the problem is transformed into an optimization problem and the existence of the minimizer is established. After the necessary conditions which must be satisfied by the minimizer are deduced, the uniqueness and stability of the minimizer are proved. By minor modification of the cost functional and some a priori regularity conditions imposed on the forward operator, the convergence of the minimizer for the noisy input data is obtained in this paper. The results can be extended to more general degenerate parabolic equations.展开更多
In the one-dimensional space, traveling wave solutions of parabolic differential equations have been widely studied and well characterized. Recently, the mathematical study on higher-dimensional traveling fronts has a...In the one-dimensional space, traveling wave solutions of parabolic differential equations have been widely studied and well characterized. Recently, the mathematical study on higher-dimensional traveling fronts has attracted a lot of attention and many new types of nonplanar traveling waves have been observed for scalar reaction-diffusion equations with various nonlinearities. In this paper, by using the comparison argument and constructing appropriate super- and subsolutions, we study the existence, uniqueness and stability of three- dimensional traveling fronts of pyramidal shape for monotone bistable systems of reaction-diffusion equations in R3. The pyramidal traveling fronts are characterized as either a combination of planar traveling fronts on the lateral surfaces or a combination of two-dimensional V-form waves on the edges of the pyramid. In particular, our results are applicable to some important models in biology, such as Lotk,u-Volterra competition-diffusion systems with or without spatio-temporal delays, and reaction-diffusion systems of multiple obligate mutualists.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.10861001)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province
文摘This paper considers an inverse problem for a partial differential equation to identify a pollution point source in a watershed. The mathematical model of the problem is a weakly coupled system of two linear parabolic equations for the concentrations u(x, t) and v(x, t) with an unknown point source F(x, t) = A( t)δ(x- s) related to the concentration u(x, t), where s is the point source location and A(t) is the amplitude of the pollution point source. Assuming that source F becomes inactive after time T*, it is proved that it can be uniquely determined by the indirect measurements { v(0, t), v( a, t), v( b, t), v( l, t), 0 〈 t ≤ T, T* 〈 T}, and, thus, the local Lipschitz stability for this inverse source problem is obtained. Based on the proof of its uniqueness, an inversion scheme is presented to determine the point source. Finally, two numerical examples are given to show the feasibility of the inversion scheme.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11061018,11261029)the Youth Foundation of Lanzhou Jiaotong University(No.2011028)+1 种基金the Long Yuan Young Creative Talents Support Program(No.252003)the Joint Funds of the Gansu Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(No.1212RJZA043)
文摘The authors investigate an inverse problem of determining the radiative coefficient in a degenerate parabolic equation from the final overspecified data. Being different from other inverse coefficient problems in which the principle coefficients are assumed to be strictly positive definite, the mathematical model discussed in this paper belongs to the second order parabolic equations with non-negative characteristic form, namely, there exists a degeneracy on the lateral boundaries of the domain. Based on the optimal control framework, the problem is transformed into an optimization problem and the existence of the minimizer is established. After the necessary conditions which must be satisfied by the minimizer are deduced, the uniqueness and stability of the minimizer are proved. By minor modification of the cost functional and some a priori regularity conditions imposed on the forward operator, the convergence of the minimizer for the noisy input data is obtained in this paper. The results can be extended to more general degenerate parabolic equations.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11371179 and 11271172)National Science Foundation of USA (Grant No. DMS-1412454)
文摘In the one-dimensional space, traveling wave solutions of parabolic differential equations have been widely studied and well characterized. Recently, the mathematical study on higher-dimensional traveling fronts has attracted a lot of attention and many new types of nonplanar traveling waves have been observed for scalar reaction-diffusion equations with various nonlinearities. In this paper, by using the comparison argument and constructing appropriate super- and subsolutions, we study the existence, uniqueness and stability of three- dimensional traveling fronts of pyramidal shape for monotone bistable systems of reaction-diffusion equations in R3. The pyramidal traveling fronts are characterized as either a combination of planar traveling fronts on the lateral surfaces or a combination of two-dimensional V-form waves on the edges of the pyramid. In particular, our results are applicable to some important models in biology, such as Lotk,u-Volterra competition-diffusion systems with or without spatio-temporal delays, and reaction-diffusion systems of multiple obligate mutualists.