Double obstacle phase field approach to an inverse problem for a discontinuous diffusion coefficient

DOI10.1088/0266-5611/32/4/045008zbMATH Open1339.65209arXiv1504.01935OpenAlexW3098485622MaRDI QIDQ2806032FDOQ2806032

Authors: Charles M. Elliott, Vanessa Styles, Klaus Deckelnick 

Publication date: 13 May 2016

Published in: Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a double obstacle phase field approach to the recovery of piece-wise constant diffusion coefficients for elliptic partial differential equations. The approach to this inverse problem is that of optimal control in which we have a quadratic fidelity term to which we add a perimeter regularisation weighted by a parameter sigma. This yields a functional which is optimised over a set of diffusion coefficients subject to a state equation which is the underlying elliptic PDE. In order to derive a problem which is amenable to computation the perimeter functional is relaxed using a gradient energy functional together with an obstacle potential in which there is an interface parameter epsilon. This phase field approach is justified by proving Gamma-convergence to the functional with perimeter regularisation as epsilon tends to zero. The computational approach is based on a finite element approximation. This discretisation is shown to converge in an appropriate way to the solution of the phase field problem. We derive an iterative method which is shown to yield an energy decreasing sequence converging to a discrete critical point. The efficacy of the approach is illustrated with numerical experiments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01935

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zbMATH Keywords

iterative algorithmregularizationconvergenceinverse problemNeumann boundary conditionsnumerical experimentoptimal controlfinite elementphase fieldlinear elliptic equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Numerical methods for inverse problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N21) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations (49J20) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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Uses Software

• UMFPACK
• ALBERTA

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