scholarly journals Solvability of interior transmission problem for the diffusion equation by constructing its Green function

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 671-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gen Nakamura ◽  
Haibing Wang

Abstract Consider the interior transmission problem arising in inverse boundary value problems for the diffusion equation with discontinuous diffusion coefficients. We prove the unique solvability of the interior transmission problem by constructing its Green function. First, we construct a local parametrix for the interior transmission problem near the boundary in the Laplace domain, by using the theory of pseudo-differential operators with a large parameter. Second, by carefully analyzing the analyticity of the local parametrix in the Laplace domain and estimating it there, a local parametrix for the original parabolic interior transmission problem is obtained via the inverse Laplace transform. Finally, using a partition of unity, we patch all the local parametrices and the fundamental solution of the diffusion equation to generate a global parametrix for the parabolic interior transmission problem and then compensate it to get the Green function by the Levi method. The uniqueness of the Green function is justified by using the duality argument, and then the unique solvability of the interior transmission problem is concluded. We would like to emphasize that the Green function for the parabolic interior transmission problem is constructed for the first time in this paper. It can be applied for active thermography and diffuse optical tomography modeled by diffusion equations to identify an unknown inclusion and its physical property.

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyoungsun Kim ◽  
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Gen Nakamura ◽  
Mourad Sini ◽  
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2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 386-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan. P. Gavrilyuk ◽  
V.L. Makarov ◽  
V.B. Vasylyk

AbstractWe develop an accurate approximation of the normalized hyperbolic operator sine family generated by a strongly positive operator A in a Banach space X which represents the solution operator for the elliptic boundary value problem. The solution of the corresponding inhomogeneous boundary value problem is found through the solution operator and the Green function. Starting with the Dunford — Cauchy representation for the normalized hyperbolic operator sine family and for the Green function, we then discretize the integrals involved by the exponentially convergent Sinc quadratures involving a short sum of resolvents of A. Our algorithm inherits a two-level parallelism with respect to both the computation of resolvents and the treatment of different values of the spatial variable x ∈ [0, 1].


1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (13) ◽  
pp. 1069-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Flores ◽  
F. Garcia-Moliner ◽  
J. Rubio

1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Sedláček

Small amplitude electrostatic oscillations in a cold plasma with continuously varying density have been investigated. The problem is the same as that treated by Barston (1964) but instead of his normal-mode analysis we employ the Laplace transform approach to solve the corresponding initial-value problem. We construct the Green function of the differential equation of the problem to show that there are branch-point singularities on the real axis of the complex frequency-plane, which correspond to the singularities of the Barston eigenmodes and which, asymptotically, give rise to non-collective oscillations with position-dependent frequency and damping proportional to negative powers of time. In addition we find an infinity of new singularities (simple poles) of the analytic continuation of the Green function into the lower half of the complex frequency-plane whose position is independent of the spatial co-ordinate so that they represent collective, exponentially damped modes of plasma oscillations. Thus, although there may be no discrete spectrum, in a more general sense a dispersion relation does exist but must be interpreted in the same way as in the case of Landau damping of hot plasma oscillations.


The question of non-uniqueness in boundary integral equation formu­lations of exterior problems for the Helmholtz equation has recently been resolved with the use of additional radiating multipoles in the definition of the Green function. The present note shows how this modification may be included in a rigorous formalism and presents an explicit choice of co­efficients of the added terms that is optimal in the sense of minimizing the least-squares difference between the modified and exact Green functions.


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