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Identifiability and Stability of Boundaries in a Supercritical Free Surface Flow
Djamel-Eddine TENIOU, Rachida AIT-YAHIA,
and Dahbia HERNANE
Laboratoire d’Analyse Mathématique et Numérique
des Equations aux Dérivées Partielles
Houari Boumédienne, Faculté de Mathématiques
Université des Sciences et de la Technologie
BP n
o 32 El Alia
Bab-Ezzouar, Alger — Algerie

dteniou@yahoo.fr rachidadjouadi@hotmail.com

dboukari_d@yahoo.fr

Received: July 27, 2006
Accepted: May 18, 2007

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we have studied a problem of identifiability of boundaries and stability of the solutions for the direct and the inverse problem concerning a supercritical and irrotational flow of an inviscid fluid over an obstacle which lies on the bottom of a channel. The identifiability of the solution means its uniqueness when it exists. The stability is studied in the sense that for the direct problem and the inverse one, we study the variation of the obtained geometry for a little perturbation of the bottom or of the free surface. The proofs of the theorems are based on Holmgren theorem and the mean value theorem. The stability obtained is linear.

Key words: inverse problem, free boundary, identifiability, stability.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification:
35R35, 76B07.