Uncertainty Quantification and Weak Approximation of an Elliptic Inverse Problem

DOI10.1137/100814664MaRDI QIDQ3116419zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Dashti, A. M. Stuart

Publication date 22 February 2012

Published in SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0143, https://authors.library.caltech.edu/69298/

zbMATH Keywords

uncertainty quantificationinverse problemsBayesian approachelliptic inverse problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15)

Abstract: We consider the inverse problem of determining the permeability from the pressure in a Darcy model of flow in a porous medium. Mathematically the problem is to find the diffusion coefficient for a linear uniformly elliptic partial differential equation in divergence form, in a bounded domain in dimension $dle3$, from measurements of the solution in the interior. We adopt a Bayesian approach to the problem. We place a prior random field measure on the log permeability, specified through the Karhunen-Lo`eve expansion of its draws. We consider Gaussian measures constructed this way, and study the regularity of functions drawn from them. We also study the Lipschitz properties of the observation operator mapping the log permeability to the observations. Combining these regularity and continuity estimates, we show that the posterior measure is well-defined on a suitable Banach space. Furthermore the posterior measure is shown to be Lipschitz with respect to the data in the Hellinger metric, giving rise to a form of well-posedness of the inverse problem. Determining the posterior measure, given the data, solves the problem of uncertainty quantification for this inverse problem. In practice the posterior measure must be approximated in a finite dimensional space. We quantify the errors incurred by employing a truncated Karhunen-Lo`eve expansion to represent this meausure. In particular we study weak convergence of a general class of locally Lipschitz functions of the log permeability, and apply this general theory to estimate errors in the posterior mean of the pressure and the pressure covariance, under refinement of the finite dimensional Karhunen-Lo`eve truncation.

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