Gelfand-Levitan integral equation for solving coefficient inverse problem

Abstract

In this paper, numerical methods for solving multidimensional equations of hyperbolic type by the Gelfand-Levitan method are proposed and implemented. The Gelfand-Levitan method is one of the most widely used in the theory of inverse problems and consists in reducing a nonlinear inverse problem to a one-parameter family of linear Fredholm integral equations of the first and second kind. In the class of generalized functions, the initial-boundary value problem for a multidimensional hyperbolic equation is reduced to the Goursat problem. Discretization and numerical implementation of the direct Goursat problem are obtained to obtain additional information for solving a multidimensional inverse problem of hyperbolic type. For the numerical solution, a sequence of Goursat problems is used for each giveny. A comparative analysis of numerical experiments of the two-dimensional Gelfand-Levitan equation is performed. Numerical experiments are presented in the form of tables and figures for various continuous functions q(x, y).