Fading regularization MFS algorithm for inverse boundary value problems in two-dimensional linear elasticity

Abstract

We investigate the numerical reconstruction of the missing displacements (Dirichlet data) and tractions (Neumann data) on an inaccessible part of the boundary in the case of two-dimensional linear isotropic elastic materials from the knowledge of over-prescribed noisy measurements taken on the remaining accessible boundary part. This inverse problem is solved using the fading regularization method, originally proposed by Cimetière et al. (2000, 2001) for the Laplace equation, in conjunction with a meshless method, namely the method of fundamental solutions (MFS). The stabilisation of the numerical method proposed herein is achieved by stopping the iterative procedure according to Morozov’s discrepancy principle (Morozov, 1966).