Reconstruction of quasi-local numerical effective models from low-resolution measurements (Q2204879)

A numerical solution of multiscale inverse problems is investigated, where the quantities to be sought are related to an unknown microscopic mathematical model, while measurement data are available only on a much coarser scale. The aim is of the paper is to provide surrogate in the inverse multiscale, which is characterized by a mismatch between coarse data scale and microscopic quantities in the sense of reproducing the effective behavior of corresponding solutions, instead of aiming at identifying the actual microscopic coefficient. The authors follow a strategy to reconstruct the effective behavior of solutions of a multiscale PDE model which involves a coefficient varying on a microscopic scale, in the line of the effective models obtained by numerical homogenization. The approach is based on a quasi-local behavior such that the reconstructed system matrices have a slightly denser sparsity pattern than standard finite element matrices. In this way, the behavior related to characteristic microscopic features of the solutions are recovered without requiring numerical computations on the microscopic scale. The effectiveness of the method has been numerically validated on a stationary linear elliptic diffusion problem with inhomogeneous boundary conditions.