Abstract
Soil column studies are used frequently in seeking to understand the behavior of a particular contaminant in a saturated homogeneous soil of a given type. The concentration of the contaminant is modeled by a parabolic partial differential equation. We seek to identify the sorption partitioning coefficient as a function of time from limited boundary data. We discuss an output least squares formulation of the problem with Tikhonov regularization. We explicitly characterize a source condition that determines the rate of convergence of the method. Numerical examples are presented.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1407-1423 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics |
Volume | 66 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2006 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Inverse problems
- Parabolic partial differential equation
- Parameter identification
- Sorption partitioning
- Tikhonov regularization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Applied Mathematics