Robust inversion methods for aerosol spectroscopy

DOI10.1080/17415977.2016.1191075zbMATH Open1372.78014arXiv1606.01293OpenAlexW2416015622MaRDI QIDQ5348703FDOQ5348703

Authors: Tobias Kyrion, Graham Alldredge 

Publication date: 18 August 2017

Published in: Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Fast Aerosol Spectrometer (FASP) is a device for spectral aerosol measurements. Its purpose is to safely monitor the atmosphere inside a reactor containment. First we describe the FASP and explain its basic physical laws. Then we introduce our reconstruction methods for aerosol particle size distributions designed for the FASP. We extend known existence results for constrained Tikhonov regularization by uniqueness criteria and use those to generate reasonable models for the size distributions. We apply a Bayesian model-selection framework on these pre-generated models. We compare our algorithm with classical inversion methods using simulated measurements. We then extend our reconstruction algorithm for two-component aerosols, so that we can simultaneously retrieve their particle-size distributions and unknown volume fractions of their two components. Finally we present the results of a numerical study for the extended algorithm.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01293

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zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian model selectionconstrained Tikhonov regularizationaerosol spectroscopyrefractive index retrievaltwo-component aerosol

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic programming (90C20) Ill-posedness and regularization problems in numerical linear algebra (65F22) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Inverse problems for integral equations (45Q05) Numerical methods for inverse problems for integral equations (65R32) Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A46) Optimization problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M50)

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