It is well known that the parabolic partial differential equations in two or more space dimensions with overspecified boundary data, feature in the mathematical modeling of many phenomena. In this article, an inverse problem of determining an unknown time-dependent source term of a parabolic equation in general dimensions is considered. Employing some transformations, we change the inverse prob...

The unsmooth boundary will greatly affect motion morphology of a shallow water wave, and a fractal space is introduced to establish a generalized KdV-Burgers equation with fractal derivatives. The semi-inverse method is used to establish a fractal variational formulation of the problem, which provides conservation laws in an energy form in the fractal space and possible solution structures of t...

The determination of an unknown boundary condition, in a nonlinaer inverse diffusion problem is considered. For solving these ill-posed inverse problems, Galerkin method based on Sinc basis functions for space and time will be used. To solve the system of linear equation, a noise is imposed and Tikhonove regularization is applied. By using a sensor located at a point in the domain of $x$, say $...

Optical Aharonov-Bohm effect: an inverse hyperbolic problems approach. Abstract We describe the general setting for the optical Aharonov-Bohm effect based on the inverse problem of the identification of the coefficients of the governing hyperbolic equation by the boundary meas-rements. We interpret the inverse problem result as a possibility in principle to detect the optical Aharonov-Bohm effe...

Given a survival distribution on the positive half-axis and a Brownian motion, a solution of the inverse first-passage problem consists of a boundary so that the first passage time over the boundary has the given distribution. We show that the solution of the inverse firstpassage problem coincides with the solution of a related optimal stopping problem. Consequently, methods from optimal stoppi...