Adel Hamdi 2009 Inverse Problems 25 115009 doi:10.1088/0266-5611/25/11/115009
Adel Hamdi
Show affiliationsThis paper deals with the identification of a point source (localization of its position and recovering the history of its time-varying intensity function) that constitutes the right-hand side of the first equation in a system of two coupled 1D linear transport equations. Assuming that the source intensity function vanishes before reaching the final control time, we prove the identifiability of the sought point source from recording the state relative to the second coupled transport equation at two observation points framing the source region. Note that at least one of the two observation points should be strategic. We establish an identification method that uses these records to identify the source position as the root of a continuous and strictly monotonic function. Whereas the source intensity function is recovered using a recursive formula without any need of an iterative process. Some numerical experiments on a variant of the surface water pollution BOD–OD coupled model are presented.
35K57 Reaction-diffusion equations
91B76 Environmental economics (natural resource models, harvesting, pollution, etc.)
Issue 11 (November 2009)
Received 17 July 2009, in final form 9 September 2009
Published 29 October 2009
Adel Hamdi 2009 Inverse Problems 25 115009
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