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The aim of this paper is to identify the localization and the flow rate of a pollution source in a river by measuring the concentration of a substrate giving significant information. This concentration is assumed to be measured in two points of the river. The simplest model of such a problem consists in a parabolic partial derivative equation. We propose to discretize this P.D.E. in space, which leads to a system of differential equations in time. Then, the analysis of identifiability is carried out using an approach based on differential algebra. A numerical parameter estimation is inferred from this procedure, which gives a first parameter estimate without a priori knowledge about unknown parameters.

This paper is concerned by the analysis of nonlinear controlled or uncontrolled dynamical model identifiability. The proposed approach is based on the construction of an input-output ideal. The aim is to develop an algorithm which gives identifiability results from this approach. Differential algebra theory allows realization of such a project. In order to state the algorithm, new results of differential algebra must be proved. Then the implementation is done in a symbolic computing language

International audience; This paper considers an identifiability and estimation problem given by aerospace domain describing aircraft nonlinear dynamics with time delays. The original idea is to use an approximation well in line with the given system and an algebraic approach to analyze identifiability. Then the approximate model is considered to estimate the parameters and delays of the original model. Numerical results are given.