| Abstract: | In this paper we investigate the electrostatic problem of determining conductivity profiles from the knowledge of boundary
currents and voltages. We obtain an improved estimate for the voltage potential of a two-dimensional conductor having finitely
many circular inclusions and piecewise constant conductivity profile. We derive an asymptotic expansion for the voltage potential
in terms of the reference voltage potential and the location, size, and conductivity of the inhomogeneities. This representation
is used to formulate the nonlinear least squares problem for estimating the location and size of the inhomogeneities. Required
boundary data for the voltage potential are generated numerically by solving a system of integral equations. Computational
experiments are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our identification procedure. |
