Recovery of an interface from boundary measurement in an elliptic differential equation

  • Authors:
  • Weifu Fang;Suxing Zeng

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wright State University, Dayton, USA 45435;Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wright State University, Dayton, USA 45435

  • Venue:
  • Advances in Computational Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We study the inverse problem of recovering an interior interface from a boundary measurement in an elliptic boundary value problem arising from a semiconductor transistor model. We set up a nonlinear least-squares formulation for solving the inverse problem, and establish the necessary derivatives with respect to the interface. We then propose both the Gauss---Newton iterative method and the conjugate gradient method for the least-squares problem, and present implementation of these methods using integral equations.