A posteriori error estimation in a finite element method for reconstruction of dielectric permittivity

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Authors: John Bondestam Malmberg 

Publication date: 26 February 2015

Abstract: We present a posteriori error estimates for finite element approximations in a minimization approach to a coefficient inverse problem. The problem is that of reconstructing the dielectric permittivity $varepsilon=varepsilon(mathbfx)$, $mathbfxinOmegasubsetmathbb{R}^3$, from boundary measurements of the electric field. The electric field is related to the permittivity via Maxwell's equations. The reconstruction procedure is based on minimization of a Tikhonov functional where the permittivity, the electric field and a Lagrangian multiplier function are approximated by peicewise polynomials. Our main result is an estimate for the difference between the computed coefficient $varepsilo{n}_h$ and the true minimizer $varepsilon$, in terms of the computed functions.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for inverse problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N21) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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