Identification of discontinuous parameters in contaminant convection–reaction–diffusion model of recovered fracturing fluid

Abstract

The primary goal of this paper is to identify the discontinuous parameters in a complicated contaminant convection–reaction–diffusion model of recovered fracturing fluid (RFF model, for short), which is modeled by a nonlinear stationary incompressible Navier–Stokes equation with multivalued and nonsmooth friction boundary condition coupled with a nonlinear convection–reaction–diffusion equation involving mixed Neumann boundary conditions. First, we impose the parameter identification problem which is, exactly, a nonlinear and nonsmooth inverse problem. Then, we show the local boundedness and weakly relative compactness of solution map to RFF model with respect to the discontinuous parameters. Moreover, the generalized continuity of solution map of RFF model is proved. Finally, via employing the theory of nonsmooth analysis and optimization, a sufficiency theorem of existence of solutions to the inverse problem under consideration is established.