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Contaminant Source Identification L1-423

Environmental ScienceInverse dispersionδ=5 · challengingL_DAG = 4📋 Stub — not mineable
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Forward model E

Contaminant Source Identification: Contaminant source identification: locate unknown pollution source and quantify emission history from sparse observations. The forward operator produces the measurement through a 3-node primitive DAG (M.transport.adjoint_source…); recovery is posed as a nonlinear_inverse problem. Difficulty tier delta=5 with effective condition number kappa_eff~500; transport_model_uncertainty, background_contamination set the accuracy floor at the Omega boundary. See the forward_model field for the closed-form equation.

L-DAG

O.iter -> O.bayesian.mcmc_source -> S.green_function.transport
O.iterO.bayesian.mcmc_sourceS.green_function.transport

Well-posedness W

Existence:
true
Uniqueness:
true
Stability:
conditional
κ:
10000

Existence of the recovered source_location_strength_time is guaranteed within the declared Omega bounds. Uniqueness holds on the measurement-supported subspace; out-of-support modes are controlled by declared priors. Stability is conditionally stable (kappa_eff ~= 500); transport_model_uncertainty dominates the stability cliff; the remaining mismatch parameters contribute higher-order bias terms. Lognormal sets the irreducible data-fidelity floor.

Solvability C

Solver class:
statistical [Bayesian_MCMC_source or adjoint_minimization]
Convergence rate q:
2
Complexity:
O(N_MCMC_samples * N_sensors * N_timesteps) for Bayesian inversion per iteration

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