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In this article, we propose a mathematical model for one-dimensional heat conduction in a three-layered solid considering that an interfacial condition is present for the temperature and heat flux conditions between the layers. The numerical approach is developed by constructing a finite difference scheme to solve the initial boundary–interface problem. The numerical scheme is designed by considering the accuracy of the model on the inner part of each layer, then extending to the interfaces and boundaries by incorporating the continuous interfacial conditions. The finite difference scheme is unconditionally stable, convergent, and easy to implement since it consists of the solution of two algebraic systems. We provide three numerical examples to confirm that our numerical approximation is consistent with the analytical solution and the physical phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is focused on investigating the mathematical model calibration of a reaction–diffusion system arising in the mathematical model of the spread of an epidemic in a society. We consider that the total population is divided into two classes of individuals, called susceptible and infectious, where a susceptible individual can become infectious, and that upon recovery, an infected individual can become susceptible again. We consider that the population lives in a spatially heterogeneous environment, and that the spread of the dynamics is governed by a reaction–diffusion system consisting of two equations, where the variables of the model are the densities of susceptible and infected individuals. In the reaction term, the coefficients are the rates of disease transmission and the rate of infective recovery. The main contribution of this study is the identification of the reaction coefficients by assuming that the infective and susceptible densities at the end time of the process and on overall spatial domain are observed. We apply the optimal control methodology to prove the main findings: the existence of positive solutions for the state system, the existence of at least one solution for the identification problem, the introduction of first-order necessary conditions, and the local uniqueness of optimal solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we propose a one-dimensional heat conduction model for a double-pane window with a temperature-jump boundary condition and a thermal lagging interfacial effect condition between layers. We construct a second-order accurate finite difference scheme to solve the heat conduction problem. The designed scheme is mainly based on approximations satisfying the facts that all inner grid points has second-order temporal and spatial truncation errors, while at the boundary points and at inter-facial points has second-order temporal truncation error and first-order spatial truncation error, respectively. We prove that the finite difference scheme introduced is unconditionally stable, convergent, and has a rate of convergence two in space and time for the L ∞ -norm. Moreover, we give a numerical example to confirm our theoretical results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]