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Stable determination of coefficients for the nonlinear third-order acoustic equations

Song-Ren Fu·Dong Qiu·Tianyi Zheng·Ting Zhou
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In this paper, we study an inverse boundary value problem for a generalized Jordan-Moore-Gibson-Thompson equation with Westervelt-type nonlinearity and space-dependent coefficients. This third-order (in time) hyperbolic equation models nonlinear ultrasound propagation in viscous and thermally relaxing media. Assuming that the diffusivity and the sound speed are known a priori, we investigate the simultaneous stable determination of the friction coefficient, the weak damping coefficient, the potential, and the nonlinear coefficient from the associated Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. The proof combines the finite-difference linearization method with the construction of Gaussian beam and geometric optics solutions. These arguments reduce the inverse problem to stability estimates for (attenuated) geodesic ray transforms under the foliation condition. As a consequence, we obtain Hölder-type stability estimates of recovering the linear and nonlinear coefficients.

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Song-Ren Fu, Dong Qiu, Tianyi Zheng, Ting Zhou. 2026-09-11. Stable determination of coefficients for the nonlinear third-order acoustic equations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12974

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