Motivated by recent theoretical results obtained by the third author for the identification problem arising in single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT), we propose an adjoint state method for recovering both the source and the attenuation in the attenuated X-ray transform. Our starting point is the transport-equation characterization of the attenuated X-ray transform, and we apply...

a mathematical model is presented in the present study to control‎ ‎the light propagation in an inhomogeneous media‎. ‎the method is ‎based on the identification of the optimal materials distribution‎ ‎in the media such that the trajectories of light rays follow the‎ ‎desired path‎. ‎the problem is formulated as a distributed parameter ‎identification problem and it is solved by a numerical met...

Including tracer data into geostatistically based methods of inverse modeling is computationally very costly when all concentration measurements are used and the sensitivities of many observations are calculated by the direct di€erentiation approach. Harvey and Gorelick (Water Resour Res 1995;31(7):1615±26) have suggested the use of the ®rst temporal moment instead of the complete concentration...

[1] As the incidence of groundwater contamination continues to grow, a number of inverse modeling methods have been developed to address forensic groundwater problems. In this work the geostatistical approach to inverse modeling is extended to allow for the recovery of the antecedent distribution of a contaminant at a given point back in time, which is critical to the assessment of historical e...

This work proposes a new adaptive remeshing strategy based on the sensitivity of the point wise error in stresses with respect to the nodal coordinates, which is computed using the adjoint-state method. This sensitivity provides information about the influence of the discretization of each zone of the computational domain in the estimation of the error in stresses at a specific point. This info...

One method to solve topology optimization problems is the topological derivative. This approach has some drawbacks: it is limited to simple problems, we do not know how to fill holes, ... To overcome these limitations, an extension of the adjoint method is presented. Named the numerical vault, it allows us to consider new fields of applications and to explore new theoretical investigations in t...

in this paper, the conjugate gradient method coupled with adjoint problem is used in order to solve the inverse heat conduction problem and estimation of the time- dependent heat flux using the temperature distribution at a point in a three layer system with none homogeneous boundary conditions. also, the effect of noisy data on final solution is studied. for solving this problem the general co...

Common velocity analysis is based on the invariance of migrated images with respect to the experiment index (shot number, plane-wave take-off angle, etc.) or extension parameters (reflection angle, correlation lags in extended images, etc.). All the information available, i.e. the entire survey, is used for assessing the quality of the model used for imaging. This approach is effective but forc...

Sensitivity analysis is an important tool for describing power system dynamic behavior in response to parameter variations. It is a central component in preventive and corrective control applications. The existing approaches for sensitivity calculations, namely, finite-difference and forward sensitivity analysis, require a computational effort that increases linearly with the number of sensitiv...

2 Discretization 9 2.1 The Discontinuous Galerkin Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.1.1 Conservation Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.1.2 Solution Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.1.3 Weak Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.1.4 Discrete System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....