Simultaneous Identification of Damping Coefficient and Initial Value in PDEs from boundary measurement

Abstract: In this paper, the simultaneous identification of damping or anti-damping coefficient and initial value for some PDEs is considered. An identification algorithm is proposed based on the fact that the output of system happens to be decomposed into a product of an exponential function and a periodic function. The former contains information of the damping coefficient, while the latter does not. The convergence and error analysis are also developed. Three examples, namely an anti-stable wave equation with boundary anti-damping, the Schr\"odinger equation with internal anti-damping, and two connected strings with middle joint anti-damping, are investigated and demonstrated by numerical simulations to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.