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University of Richmond

Physical Sciences and Mathematics

1996

First-kind integral equations

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An Inverse Problem In Thermal Imaging, Kurt Bryan, Lester Caudill Jun 1996

An Inverse Problem In Thermal Imaging, Kurt Bryan, Lester Caudill

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

This paper examines uniqueness and stability results for an inverse problem in thermal imaging. The goal is to identify an unknown boundary of an object by applying a heat flux and measuring the induced temperature on the boundary of the sample. The problem is studied in both the case in which one has data at every point on the boundary of the region and the case in which only finitely many measurements are available. An inversion procedure is developed and used to study the stability of the inverse problem for various experimental configurations.