Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2008
We deal with a variational approach to the inverse crack problem, that is the detection and reconstruction of cracks, and other defects, inside a conducting body by performing boundary measurements of current and voltage type. We formulate such an inverse problem in a free-discontinuity problems framework and propose a novel method for the numerical reconstruction of the cracks by the available boundary data. The proposed method is amenable to numerical computations and it is justified by a convergence analysis, as the error on the measurements goes to zero. We further notice that we use the Γ-convergence approximation of the Mumford–Shah functional due to Ambrosio and Tortorelli as the required regularization term.
To send this article to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about sending to your Kindle. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Google Drive account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.