A numerical method for reconstructing the coefficient in a wave equation |
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| Authors: | Yat Tin Chow Jun Zou |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong |
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| Abstract: | We present a numerical method for reconstructing the coefficient in a wave equation from a single measurement of partial Dirichlet boundary data. The original inverse problem is converted to a nonlinear integral differential equation, which is solved by an iterative method. At each iteration, one linear second‐order elliptic problem is solved to update the reconstruction of the coefficient, then the reconstructed coefficient is used to solve the forward problem to obtain the new data for the next iteration. The initial guess of the iterative method is provided by an approximate model. This model extends the approximate globally convergent method proposed by Beilina and Klibanov, which has been well developed for the determination of the coefficient in a special wave equation. Numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate the stability and robustness of the proposed method with noisy data.© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 31: 289–307, 2015 |
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| Keywords: | reconstruction single measurement wave equation |
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