An inverse problem for distributed order time-fractional diffusion equations

Abstract

This paper deals with the distributed order time-fractional diffusion equations with non-homogeneous Dirichlet (Nuemann) boundary condition. We first prove the wellposedness of the weak solution to the initial boundary value problem for the distributed order time-fractional diffusion equation by means of eigenfunction expansion, which ensure that the weak solution has the classical derivatives. We next give a Harnack type inequality of the solution in the frequency domain under the Laplace transform, from which we further show a uniqueness result for an inverse problem in determining the weight function in the distributed order time derivative from point observation.