The determination of a coefficient in an elliptic equation from average flux data

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 173-187

  Lowe, Bruce D ^a   Rundell, William ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elliptic equation; Inverse problem; Quasi Newton scheme; Undetermined coefficients

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

DATA MEASUREMENT; DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELLIPTIC EQUATION; NET FLUX; NUMERICAL RECONSTRUCTION; QUASI-NEWTON SCHEME; UNDETERMINED COEFFICIENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 0030164824     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0377-0427(95)00155-7     Document Type: Article

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