Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4619818 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 2009 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

We consider the identification of a nonlinear corrosion profile from single voltage boundary data and show injectivity of the parameter-to-output map. We demonstrate that Tikhonov regularization can be applied in order to solve the inverse problem in a stable manner despite the presence of noisy data. In combination with a logarithmic stability estimate for the underlying Cauchy problem, rates for the convergence of the regularized solutions are proven using a source condition that does not involve the Fréchet derivative of the parameter-to-output map. We present sufficient conditions for the existence of a source function and illustrate our approach by means of numerical examples.

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