Determination of locations of point-like masses in an inverse source problem of the Poisson equation (Q1347153): Difference between revisions

Many inverse problems are formulated by inverse problems of partial differential equations. In this article, an inverse source problem of the Poisson equation is discussed with a boundary element approach and discrete Fourier transform. The case that several point-like masses are placed in a disk domain is studied. The author considers the problem to determine the mass positions from the potential and flux on the boundary. In Section 2 an expression of the logarithmic potential using boundary integrals is derived. A Fourier expansion of the logarithmic potentials of point-like masses is discussed in Section 3, and an algebraic relation between Fourier coefficients and mass positions is also given. Section 4 shows error estimations for the discrete Fourier transform of the logarithmic potential. In Section 5 several procedures to solve the problem are proposed, and to estimate errors of numerical solutions. Section 6 shows some numerical experiments and illustrates the effectiveness of the algorithms.