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We consider the inverse problem of recovering an isotropic electrical conductivity from interior knowledge of the magnitude of one current density field generated by applying current on a set of electrodes. The required interior data can be obtained by means of MRI measurements. On the boundary we only require knowledge of the electrodes, their impedances, and the corresponding average input currents. From the mathematical point of view, this practical question leads us to consider a new weighted minimum gradient problem for functions satisfying the boundary conditions coming from the Complete Electrode Model of Somersalo, Cheney and Isaacson. This variational problem has non-unique solutions. The surprising discovery is that the physical data is still sufficient to determine the geometry of the level sets of the minimizers. In particular, we obtain an interesting phase retrieval result: knowledge of the input current at the boundary allows determination of the full current vector field from its magnitude. We characterize the non-uniqueness in the variational problem. We also show that additional measurements of the voltage potential along one curve joining the electrodes yield unique determination of the conductivity. A nonlinear algorithm is proposed and implemented to illustrate the theoretical results.
We propose and study a regularization method for recovering an approximate electrical conductivity solely from the magnitude of one interior current density field. Without some minimal knowledge of the boundary voltage potential, the problem has been recently shown to have nonunique solutions, thus recovering the exact conductivity is impossible. The method is based on solving a weighted least gradient problem in the subspace of functions of bounded variations with square integrable traces. The computational effectiveness of this method is demonstrated in numerical experiments.
We consider self-similar approximations of nonlinear hyperbolic systems in one space dimension with Riemann initial data and general diffusion matrix. We assume that the matrix of the system is strictly hyperbolic and the diffusion matrix is close to the identity. No genuine nonlinearity assumption is required. We show the existence of a smooth, self-similar solution which has bounded total variation, uniformly in the diffusion parameter. In the zero-diffusion limit, the solutions converge to a solution of the Riemann problem associated with the hyperbolic system. A similar result is established for the relaxation approximation and the boundary-value problem in a half-space for the same regularizations.
In this paper we derive, starting from the basic principles of Thermodynamics, an extended version of the nonconserved Penrose-Fife phase transition model, in which dynamic boundary conditions are considered in order to take into account interactions with walls. Moreover, we study the well-posedness and the asymptotic behavior of the Cauchy problem for the PDE system associated to the model, allowing the phase configuration of the material to be described by a singular function.
The existence of an inertial manifold for the modified Leray-$alpha$ model with periodic boundary conditions in three-dimensional space is proved by using the so-called spatial averaging principle. Moreover, an adaptation of the Perron method for constructing inertial manifolds in the particular case of zero spatial averaging is suggested.
We consider the vectorial analogue of the thin free boundary problem introduced in cite{CRS} as a realization of a nonlocal version of the classical Bernoulli problem. We study optimal regularity, nondegeneracy, and density properties of local minimizers. Via a blow-up analysis based on a Weiss type monotonicity formula, we show that the free boundary is the union of a regular and a singular part. Finally we use a viscosity approach to prove $C^{1,alpha}$ regularity of the regular part of the free boundary.