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most citedA Tutorial on Inverse Problems for Anomalous Diffusion Processes

264 citations · 659 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

math.NA2026

Identification of space-dependent coefficients in two competing terms of a nonlinear subdiffusion equation

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

We consider a (sub)diffusion equation with a nonlinearity of the form , where and are space dependent functions. Prominent examples are the Fisher-KPP, the Frank-…

math.NA2025

Reconstruction of space-dependence and nonlinearity of a reaction term in a subdiffusion equation

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

In this paper we study the simultaneous reconstruction of two coefficients in a reaction-subdiffusion equation, namely a nonlinearity and a space dependent factor. The fact that th…

math.NA2023

Regularising the Cauchy problem for Laplace's equation by fractional operators

Barbara Kaltenbacher an William Rundell

In this paper we revisit the classical Cauchy problem for Laplace's equation as well as two further related problems in the light of regularisation of this highly ill-conditioned p…

math.NA2023★ 1 cited

Nonlinearity parameter imaging in the frequency domain

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

Nonlinearity parameter tomography leads to the problem of identifying a coefficient in a nonlinear wave equation (such as the Westervelt equation) modeling ultrasound propagation.…

math.NA2022★ 2 cited

On the simultanenous identification of the nonlinearity coefficient and the sound speed in the Westervelt equation

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

This paper considers the Westervelt equation, one of the most widely used models in nonlinear acoustics, and seeks to recover two spatially-dependent parameters of physical importa…

math.AP2021★ 7 cited

Determining damping terms in fractional wave equations

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

This paper deals with the inverse problem of recovering an arbitrary number of fractional damping terms in a wave equation. We develop several approaches on uniqueness and reconstr…

math.NA2021★ 8 cited

Determining the nonlinearity in an acoustic wave equation

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

We consider an undetermined coefficient inverse problem for a nonlinear partial differential equation describing high intensity ultrasound propagation as widely used in medical ima…

math.AP2021

On an inverse problem of nonlinear imaging with fractional damping

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

This paper considers the attenuated Westervelt equation in pressure formulation. The attenuation is by various models proposed in the literature and characterised by the inclusion…

math.AP2021★ 22 cited

On the identification of the nonlinearity parameter in the Westervelt equation from boundary measurements

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

We consider an undetermined coefficient inverse problem for a non-\\linear partial differential equation occurring in high intensity ultrasound propagation as used in acoustic tomo…

math.AP2021

On uniqueness and reconstruction of a nonlinear diffusion term in a parabolic equation

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

The problem of recovering coefficients in a diffusion equation is one of the basic inverse problems. Perhaps the most important term is the one that couples the length and time sca…

math.AP2021★ 6 cited

On the simultaneous recovery of the conductivity and the nonlinear reaction term in a parabolic equation

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

This paper considers the inverse problem of recovering both the unknown, spatially-dependent conductivity and the nonlinear reaction term in a reaction-diffusion equa…

math.AP2020

Uniqueness for an inverse coefficient problem for a one-dimensional time-fractional diffusion equation with non-zero boundary conditions

W. Rundell, M. Yamamoto

We consider initial boundary value problems for one-dimensional diffusion equation with time-fractional derivative of order which are subject to non-zero Neumann bound…

math.NA2020★ 29 cited

The Inverse Problem of Reconstructing Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

This paper considers the inverse problem of recovering state-dependent source terms in a reaction-diffusion system from overposed data consisting of the values of the state variabl…

math.NA2019

Regularization of a backwards parabolic equation by fractional operators

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

The backwards diffusion equation is one of the classical ill-posed inverse problems, related to a wide range of applications, and has been extensively studied over the last 50 year…

math.AP2019★ 1 cited

On the identification of source term in the heat equation from sparse data

William Rundell, Zhidong Zhang

We consider the recovery of a source term for the nonhomogeneous heat equation in where is a bounded domain in with smooth…

math.NA2019

Recovery of multiple coefficients in a reaction-diffusion equation

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

This paper considers the inverse problem of recovering both the unknown, spatially-dependent conductivity and the potential in a parabolic equation from overposed dat…

math.NA2019★ 32 cited

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

Barbara Kaltenbacher, William Rundell

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…

math-ph2018★ 8 cited

Recovery of a potential in a fractional diffusion equation

William Rundell, Masahiro Yamamoto

We consider the determination of an unknown potential form a fractional diffusion equation subject to overposed lateral boundary data. We show that this data allows recovery…

math.NA2017★ 53 cited

Recovering an Unknown Source in a Fractional Diffusion Problem

William Rundell, Zhidong Zhang

A standard inverse problem is to determine a source which is supported in an unknown domain from external boundary measurements. Here we consider the case of a time-dependent s…

math.AP2017

A direct method for reconstructing inclusions and boundary conditions from electrostatic data

Isaac Harris

In this paper, we will discuss the use of a Sampling Method to reconstruct impenetrable inclusions from Electrostatic Cauchy data. We consider the case of a perfectly conducting an…

math.AP2016★ 40 cited

Fraction diffusion: Recovering the distributed fractional derivative from overposed data

William Rundell, Zhidong Zhang

There has been considerable recent study in "sub-diffusion" models that replace the standard parabolic equation model by a one with a fractional derivative in the time variable. Th…

math.AP2015★ 131 cited

Strong maximum principle for fractional diffusion equations and an application to an inverse source problem

Yikan Liu, William Rundell, Masahiro Yamamoto

The strong maximum principle is a remarkable characterization of parabolic equations, which is expected to be partly inherited by fractional diffusion equations. Based on the corre…

math.NA2015★ 264 cited

A Tutorial on Inverse Problems for Anomalous Diffusion Processes

Bangti Jin, William Rundell

Over the last two decades, anomalous diffusion processes in which the mean squares variance grows slower or faster than that in a Gaussian process have found many applications. At…

math.NA2013★ 11 cited

A Finite Element Method for the Fractional Sturm-Liouville Problem

Bangti Jin, Raytcho Lazarov, Joseph Pasciak +1

In this work, we propose an efficient finite element method for solving fractional Sturm-Liouville problems involving either the Caputo or Riemann-Liouville derivative of order $α\…