Reconstruction of closely spaced small inhomogeneities via boundary measurements for the full time-dependent Maxwell’s equations

We consider for the full time-dependent Maxwell’s equations the inverse problem of identifying locations and certain properties of small electromagnetic inhomogeneities in a homogeneous background medium from dynamic boundary measurements on the boundary for a finite time interval.     

Identification of small amplitude perturbations in the electromagnetic parameters from partial dynamic boundary measurements

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing small amplitude perturbations in the conductivity for the wave equation from partial (on part of the boundary) dynamic boundary measurements. Through construction of appropriate test functions by a geometrical control method we provide a rigorous derivation of the inverse Fourier transform of the perturbations in the conductivity as the leading order of an appropriate averaging of the partial dynamic boundary perturbations. This asymptotic formula is generalized to the full time-dependent Maxwell's equations. Our formulae may be expected to lead to very effective computational identification algorithms, aimed at determining electromagnetic parameters of an object based on partial dynamic boundary measurements.     

The factorization method for cracks in inhomogeneous media

We consider the inverse scattering problem of determining the shape and location of a crack surrounded by a known inhomogeneous media. Both the Dirichlet boundary condition and a mixed type boundary conditions are considered. In order to avoid using the background Green function in the inversion process, a reciprocity relationship between the Green function and the solution of an auxiliary scattering problem is proved. Then we focus on extending the factorization method to our inverse shape reconstruction problems by using far field measurements at fixed wave number. We remark that this is done in a non intuitive space for the mixed type boundary condition as we indicate in the sequel.     

An Algorithm for Cavity Reconstruction in Electrical Impedance Tomography

We consider the inverse problem of finding cavities within some object from electrostatic measurements on the boundary. By a cavity we understand any object with a different electrical conductivity from the background material of the body. We give an algorithm for solving this inverse problem based on the output nonlinear least-square formulation and the regularized Newton-type iteration. In particular, we present a number of numerical results to highlight the potential and the limitations of this method.     

Generic Local Uniqueness and Stability in Polarization Tomography

The problem of polarization tomography is considered on a Riemannian manifold. This problem comes from the physical problem of recovering the anisotropic part of the dielectric permittivity tensor of a quasi-isotropic medium from polarization measurements made around the boundary, but is more general. In greater than three dimensions local uniqueness and stability are established for generic background metrics, and near generic tensor fields through the study of a related linear inverse problem. The same results are established on a natural subspace of tensor fields in dimension three.     

Uniqueness of the solution to an inverse thermoelasticity problem

The inverse problem of coupled thermoelasticity is considered in the static, quasi-static, and dynamic cases. The goal is to recover the thermal stress state inside a body from the displacements and temperature given on a portion of its boundary. The inverse thermoelasticity problem finds applications in structural stability analysis in operational modes, when measurements can generally be conducted only on a surface portion. For a simply connected body consisting of a mechanically and thermally isotropic linear elastic material, uniqueness theorems are proved in all the cases under study.     

The inverse scattering problem for partially penetrable obstacles

We consider the direct and inverse problems for the scattering of a partially penetrable obstacle. Here ‘partially penetrable obstacle’ means that the waves transmit into the obstacle just from partial boundary of the obstacle with the rest of the boundary touching a known perfect and thin scatterer. The solvability of the direct scattering problem is presented using the classical boundary integral equation method. An interesting interior transmission problem is investigated for the purpose of solving the inverse obstacle scattering problem. Then the linear sampling method is proposed to reconstruct the shape and location of the obstacle from near field measurements. We note that the inversion algorithm can be implemented by avoiding the use of background Green function as a test function due to a mixed reciprocal principle.     

On the Main Aspects of the Inverse Conductivity Problem

We consider a nonlinear inverse problem for an elliptic partial differential equation known as the Calder{\''o}n problem or the inverse conductivity problem. Based on several results, we briefly summarize them to motivate this research field. We give a general view of the problem by reviewing the available results for $C^2$ conductivities. After reducing the original problem to the inverse problem for a Schr\"odinger equation, we apply complex geometrical optics solutions to show its uniqueness. After extending the ideas of the uniqueness proof result, we establish a stable dependence between the conductivity and the boundary measurements. By using the Carleman estimate, we discuss the partial data problem, which deals with measurements that are taken only in a part of the boundary.     

Iterative method for solving a three-dimensional electrical impedance tomography problem in the case of piecewise constant conductivity and one measurement on the boundary

The problem of electrical impedance tomography in a bounded three-dimensional domain with a piecewise constant electrical conductivity is considered. The boundary of the inhomogeneity is assumed to be unknown. The inverse problem is to determine the surface that is the boundary of the inhomogeneity from given measurements of the potential and its normal derivative on the outer boundary of the domain. An iterative method for solving the inverse problem is proposed, and numerical results are presented.     

Identification of small inhomogeneities: Asymptotic factorization

We consider the boundary value problem of calculating the electrostatic potential for a homogeneous conductor containing finitely many small insulating inclusions. We give a new proof of the asymptotic expansion of the electrostatic potential in terms of the background potential, the location of the inhomogeneities and their geometry, as the size of the inhomogeneities tends to zero. Such asymptotic expansions have already been used to design direct (i.e. noniterative) reconstruction algorithms for the determination of the location of the small inclusions from electrostatic measurements on the boundary, e.g. MUSIC-type methods. Our derivation of the asymptotic formulas is based on integral equation methods. It demonstrates the strong relation between factorization methods and MUSIC-type methods for the solution of this inverse problem.

     

AN ITERATIVE BEM FOR THE INVERSE PROBLEM OF DETECTING CORROSION IN A PIPE

In this paper, we consider an inverse problem of determining the corrosion occurring in an inaccessible interior part of a pipe from the measurements on the outer boundary. The problem is modelled by Laplace's equation with an unknowm term γ in the boundary condition on the inner boundary. Based on the Maz'ya iterative algorithm, a regularized BEM method is proposed for obtaining approximate solutions for this inverse problem. The numerical results show that our method can be easily realized and is quite effective.     

A noniterative reconstruction method for the inverse potential problem with partial boundary measurements

In this paper, a noniterative reconstruction method for solving the inverse potential problem is proposed. The forward problem is governed by a modified Helmholtz equation. The inverse problem consists in the reconstruction of a set of anomalies embedded into a geometrical domain from partial or total boundary measurements of the associated potential. Since the inverse problem is written in the form of an ill‐posed boundary value problem, the idea is to rewrite it as a topology optimization problem. In particular, a shape functional measuring the misfit between the solution obtained from the model and the data taken from the boundary measurements is minimized with respect to a set of ball‐shaped anomalies by using the concept of topological derivatives. It means that the shape functional is expanded asymptotically and then truncated up to the desired order term. The resulting truncated expansion is trivially minimized with respect to the parameters under consideration that leads to a noniterative second order reconstruction algorithm. As a result, the reconstruction process becomes very robust with respect to the noisy data and independent of any initial guess. Finally, some numerical experiments are presented showing the capability of the proposed method in reconstructing multiple anomalies of different sizes and shapes by taking into account complete or partial boundary measurements.     

A numerical method for determining the localized initial condition in the FitzHugh-Nagumo and Aliev-Panfilov models

The inverse problem for the FitzHugh-Nagumo and Aliev-Panfilov models describing wave propagation in excitable media is considered. The problem lies in determining a localized initial condition from measurements on the external boundary of a plane region. A numerical method for solving the inverse problem is proposed, and the results from a numerical solution of the inverse problem for regions similar to different sections of a heart are presented.     

Stability of supersonic contact discontinuity for two-dimensional steady compressible Euler flows in a finite nozzle

In this paper, we study the stability of supersonic contact discontinuity for the two-dimensional steady compressible Euler flows in a finitely long nozzle of varying cross-sections. We formulate the problem as an initial–boundary value problem with the contact discontinuity as a free boundary. To deal with the free boundary value problem, we employ the Lagrangian transformation to straighten the contact discontinuity and then the free boundary value problem becomes a fixed boundary value problem. We develop an iteration scheme and establish some novel estimates of solutions for the first order of hyperbolic equations on a cornered domain. Finally, by using the inverse Lagrangian transformation and under the assumption that the incoming flows and the nozzle walls are smooth perturbations of the background state, we prove that the original free boundary problem admits a unique weak solution which is a small perturbation of the background state and the solution consists of two smooth supersonic flows separated by a smooth contact discontinuity.     

Determination of coefficients for a dissipative wave equation via boundary measurements

In this paper we consider the inverse problem of recovering the viscosity coefficient in a dissipative wave equation via boundary measurements. We obtain stability estimates by considering all possible measurements implemented on the boundary. We also prove that the viscosity coefficient is uniquely determined by a finite number of measurements on the boundary provided that it belongs to a given finite dimensional vector space.     

Reconstruction of boundary controls in parabolic systems

In the paper, an inverse dynamic problem is considered. It consists in reconstructing a priori unknown boundary controls in dynamical systems described by boundary value problems for partial differential equations of parabolic type. The source information for solving the inverse problem is the results of approximate measurements of the states of the observed system’s motion. The problem is solved in the static case; i.e., to solve it, we use all the measurement data accumulated during some specified observation interval. The problem under consideration is ill-posed. To solve it, we propose the Tikhonov method with a stabilizer containing the sum of the mean-square norm and total time variation of the control. The use of such nondifferentiable stabilizer allows us to obtain more precise results than the approximation of the desired control in the Lebesgue spaces. In particular, this method provides the pointwise and piecewise uniform convergences of regularized approximations and makes possible the numerical reconstruction of the subtle structure of the desired control. In the paper, the subgradient projection method for obtaining a minimizing sequence for the Tikhonov functional is described and substantiated. Also, we demonstrate the two-stage finitedimensional approximation of the problem and present the results of numerical simulation.     

Stability of inverse problems in an infinite slab with partial data

In this paper, we study the stability of two inverse boundary value problems in an infinite slab with partial data. These problems have been studied by Li and Uhlmann for the case of the Schrödinger equation and by Krupchyk, Lassas, and Uhlmann for the case of the magnetic Schrödinger equation. Here, we quantify the method of uniqueness proposed by Li and Uhlmann and prove a log–log stability estimate for the inverse problems associated to the Schrödinger equation. The boundary measurements considered in these problems are modeled by partial knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map: in the first inverse problem, the corresponding Dirichlet and Neumann data are known on different boundary hyperplanes of the slab; in the second inverse problem, they are known on the same boundary hyperplane of the slab.     

Determination of point sources in vibrating plate by boundary measurements

We consider an inverse problem of determining point sources in vibrating plate by boundary measurements. We show that the boundary observation of the domain determines uniquely the sources for an arbitrarily small time of observation and we establish a conditional stability.     

Numerical recovery of Robin boundary from boundary measurements for the Laplace equation

Based on an integral equation formulation, we present numerical methods for the inverse problem of recovering part of the domain boundary from boundary measurements of solutions to the Laplace equation on an accessible part of the boundary.     

SOURCE TERM IDENTIFICATION WITH DISCONTINUOUS DUAL RECIPROCITY APPROXIMATION AND QUASI-NEWTON METHOD FROM BOUNDARY OBSERVATIONS

This paper deals with discontinuous dual reciprocity boundary element method for solving an inverse source problem.The aim of this work is to determine the source term in elliptic equations for nonhomogenous anisotropic media,where some additional boundary measurements are required.An equivalent formulation to the primary inverse problem is established based on the minimization of a functional cost,where a regularization term is employed to eliminate the oscillations of the noisy data.Moreover,an efficient algorithm is presented and tested for some numerical examples.