Observability of the electropotential on a nested cylindrical domain. I: The continuous solution

DOI10.1016/0096-3003(90)90009-RMaRDI QIDQ809010zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Clyde Martin, Shishen Xie

Publication date 1990

Published in Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0096-3003(90)90009-r

zbMATH Keywords

analytical solutiondirect problemDirichlet boundary conditionselectropotentialepicardial surfacegeneralized Fourier serieshomogeneous Neuman boundary conditionsLaplace equationmixed boundary conditionssemi-infinite nested cylindrical domain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Convergence and absolute convergence of Fourier and trigonometric series (42A20) Biological applications of optics and electromagnetic theory (78A70) Physiology (general) (92C30) Medical applications (general) (92C50)

Review text

This paper deals with a simplified model of the inverse electrocardiological problem: one would like to estimate the electropotential on the epicardial surface from discrete measurements on the torso. An idealized semi-infinite nested cylindrical domain is used: the domain is defined in cylindrical coordinates by: \(1\leq r\leq a\), - \(\pi\leq \Phi \leq \pi\), \(z\geq 0\), where \(r=1\) represents the heart surface and \(r=a\) the torso. The potential satisfies Laplace's equation. In this first part, the direct problem is studied, that is the Laplace equation with mixed boundary conditions: homogeneous Neuman boundary conditions on \(r=1\) and \(r=a\) and Dirichlet boundary conditions: \[ u(r,\Phi,0)=f(r,\Phi)\text{ on } z=0,\quad \lim_{z\to \infty}u(r,\Phi;z)=0. \] This first part is devoted to the derivation of an analytical solution in the form of generalized Fourier series and to the study of its convergence.

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