Numerical studies of the Lagrangian approach for reconstruction of the conductivity in a waveguide
For researchers in inverse problems and wave propagation, this work presents a theoretically grounded numerical method, though it is an incremental contribution to existing optimization-based approaches.
This paper tackles the inverse problem of reconstructing the conductivity function in a hyperbolic equation from noisy boundary observations. Numerical simulations in 3D demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed Lagrangian-based optimization method.
We consider an inverse problem of reconstructing the conductivity function in a hyperbolic equation using single space-time domain noisy observations of the solution on the backscattering boundary of the computational domain. We formulate our inverse problem as an optimization problem and use Lagrangian approach to minimize the corresponding Tikhonov functional. We present a theorem of a local strong convexity of our functional and derive error estimates between computed and regularized as well as exact solutions of this functional, correspondingly. In numerical simulations we apply domain decomposition finite element-finite difference method for minimization of the Lagrangian. Our computational study shows efficiency of the proposed method in the reconstruction of the conductivity function in three dimensions.