The diffusion determination in a reaction-diffusion system by application of Dubovitskii-Milyutin’s formalism
摘要
In this work, we investigate the calibration of diffusion coefficients in a reaction-diffusion system arising in the modelling of the spatial-temporal dynamics of an epidemic. The model assumes a population partitioned into two compartments: susceptible and infected individuals. It captures a scenario with no lasting immunity, allowing recovered individuals to return to the susceptible class. We consider that the diffusion is given by a diagonal matrix with unknown space-dependent entries that should be determined by the knowledge of susceptible and infected populations at some fixed time. The identification of the diffusion parameter is posed as an optimal control problem, where the objective functional is the comparison between the solution of the reaction-diffusion system and the observed data in the