Boundary reconstruction in two-dimensional steady state anisotropic heat conduction using a regularized meshless method

Abstract We study the stable numerical identification of an unknown portion of the boundary on which either a Dirichlet or a Robin boundary condition is provided, while additional Cauchy data are given on the remaining known part of the boundary of a two-dimensional domain, in the case of steady state anisotropic heat conduction problems. This inverse geometric problem is solved using the method of fundamental solutions (MFS) in conjunction with the Tikhonov regularization method [53] . The optimal value for the regularization parameter is chosen according to Hansen’s L-curve criterion [17] . The stability, convergence, accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method are investigated by considering several examples in both smooth and piecewise smooth geometries.

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