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Simultaneous determination of two unknown thermal coefficients through a mushy zone model with an overspecified convective boundary condition
The simultaneous determination of two unknown thermal coefficients for a
semi-infinite material under a phase-change process with a mushy zone according
to the Solomon-Wilson-Alexiades model is considered. The material is assumed to
be initially liquid at its melting temperature and it is considered that the
solidification process begins due to a heat flux imposed at the fixed face. The
associated free boundary value problem is overspecified with a convective
boundary condition with the aim of the simultaneous determination of the
temperature of the solid region, one of the two free boundaries of the mushy
zone and two thermal coefficients among the latent heat by unit mass, the
thermal conductivity, the mass density, the specific heat and the two
coefficients that characterize the mushy zone. The another free boundary of the
mushy zone, the bulk temperature and the heat flux and heat transfer
coefficients at the fixed face are assumed to be known. According to the choice
of the unknown thermal coefficients, fifteen phase-change problems arise. The
study of all of them is presented and explicit formulae for the unknowns are
given, beside necessary and sufficient conditions on data in order to obtain
them. Formulae for the unknown thermal coefficients, with their corresponding
restrictions on data, are summarized in a table.Comment: 27 pages, 1 Table, 1 Appendi
Application of the method of fundamental solutions for inverse problems related to the determination of elasto-plastic properties of prizmatic bar
The problem of determining the elastoplastic properties of a prismatic bar from the given relation from experiment between torsional moment MT and angle of twist per unit of rod’s length θ is investigated as inverse problem. Proposed method of solution of inverse problem is based on solution of some sequences of direct problem with application of the Levenberg-Marquardt iteration method. In direct problem these properties are known and torsional moment as a function of angle of twist is calculated form solution of some non-linear boundary value problem. For solution of direct problem on each iteration step the method of fundamental solutions and method of particular solutions is used for prismatic cross section of rod. The non-linear torsion problem in plastic region is solved by means of the Picard iteration
Numerical identification of a nonlinear diffusion law via regularization in Hilbert scales
We consider the reconstruction of a diffusion coefficient in a quasilinear
elliptic problem from a single measurement of overspecified Neumann and
Dirichlet data. The uniqueness for this parameter identification problem has
been established by Cannon and we therefore focus on the stable solution in the
presence of data noise. For this, we utilize a reformulation of the inverse
problem as a linear ill-posed operator equation with perturbed data and
operators. We are able to explicitly characterize the mapping properties of the
corresponding operators which allow us to apply regularization in Hilbert
scales. We can then prove convergence and convergence rates of the regularized
reconstructions under very mild assumptions on the exact parameter. These are,
in fact, already needed for the analysis of the forward problem and no
additional source conditions are required. Numerical tests are presented to
illustrate the theoretical statements.Comment: 17 pages, 2 figure
Inverse problems in the design, modeling and testing of engineering systems
Formulations, classification, areas of application, and approaches to solving different inverse problems are considered for the design of structures, modeling, and experimental data processing. Problems in the practical implementation of theoretical-experimental methods based on solving inverse problems are analyzed in order to identify mathematical models of physical processes, aid in input data preparation for design parameter optimization, help in design parameter optimization itself, and to model experiments, large-scale tests, and real tests of engineering systems
Recovery of a space-dependent vector source in thermoelastic systems
In this contribution, an inverse problem of determining a space-dependent vector source in a thermoelastic system of type-I, type-II and type-III is studied using information from a supplementary measurement at a fixed time. These thermoelastic systems consist of two equations that are coupled: a parabolic equation for the temperature
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and a vectorial hyperbolic equation for the displacement
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. In this latter one, the source is unknown, but solely space dependent. A spacewise-dependent additional measurement at the final time ensures that the inverse problem corresponding with each type of thermoelasticity has a unique solution when a damping term
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(with
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componentwise strictly monotone increasing) is present in the hyperbolic equation. Despite the ill-posed nature of these inverse problems, a stable iterative algorithm is proposed to recover the unknown source in the case that
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is also linear. This method is based on a sequence of well-posed direct problems, which are numerically solved at each iteration, step by step, using the finite element method. The instability of the inverse source problem is overcome by stopping the iterations at the first iteration for which the discrepancy principle is satisfied. Numerical results support the theoretically obtained results
Inverse Problems of Determining Coefficients of the Fractional Partial Differential Equations
When considering fractional diffusion equation as model equation in analyzing
anomalous diffusion processes, some important parameters in the model, for
example, the orders of the fractional derivative or the source term, are often
unknown, which requires one to discuss inverse problems to identify these
physical quantities from some additional information that can be observed or
measured practically. This chapter investigates several kinds of inverse
coefficient problems for the fractional diffusion equation
Inverse problems and optimal experiment design in unsteady heat transfer processes identification
Experimental-computational methods for estimating characteristics of unsteady heat transfer processes are analyzed. The methods are based on the principles of distributed parameter system identification. The theoretical basis of such methods is the numerical solution of nonlinear ill-posed inverse heat transfer problems and optimal experiment design problems. Numerical techniques for solving problems are briefly reviewed. The results of the practical application of identification methods are demonstrated when estimating effective thermophysical characteristics of composite materials and thermal contact resistance in two-layer systems
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