Inverse problems for the stationary transport equation in the diffusion scaling

DOI10.1137/18M1207582zbMATH Open1437.35707arXiv1808.02071OpenAlexW2993046037WikidataQ126530279 ScholiaQ126530279MaRDI QIDQ5203757FDOQ5203757

Authors: Ru-Yu Lai, Qin Li, Gunther Uhlmann 

Publication date: 9 December 2019

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing the optical parameters of the radiative transfer equation (RTE) from boundary measurements in the diffusion limit. In the diffusive regime (the Knudsen number $mathsfKnll1$), the forward problem for the stationary RTE is well approximated by an elliptic equation. However, the connection between the inverse problem for the RTE and the inverse problem for the elliptic equation has not been fully developed. This problem is particularly interesting because the former one is mildly ill-posed , with a Lipschitz type stability estimate, while the latter is well known to be severely ill-posed with a logarithmic type stability estimate. In this paper, we derive stability estimates for the inverse problem for RTE and examine its dependence on $mathsfKn$. We show that the stability is Lipschitz in all regimes, but the coefficient deteriorates as $e^{frac1mathsfKn}$, making the inverse problem of RTE severely ill-posed when $mathsfKn$ is small. In this way we connect the two inverse problems. Numerical results agree with the analysis of worsening stability as the Knudsen number gets smaller.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02071

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zbMATH Keywords

radiative transfer equationstability estimateKnudsen number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Numerical methods for inverse problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M32) PDEs in connection with classical thermodynamics and heat transfer (35Q79)

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