Lipschitz stability of an inverse problem for the Kawahara equation with damping

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to establish a stability result regarding the inverse problem of retrieving the damping coefficient in Kawahara equation. We first establish an internal Carleman estimate for the linearized problem with the help of Dirichlet-Neumann type boundary conditions. Using the obtained Carleman estimate and the regularity of solutions for the Kawahara equation, we prove the Lipschitz type stability and uniqueness of the considered inverse problems.