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INVERSE PROBLEMS
Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/29/2/025009
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- DFG [HE5386/8-1, EXC128, NSF-DMS-0915 238, AFSOR-FA9550-09-1-0225]
- DAAD [50 727 872, 50756 459]
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0915238] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We propose and analyze a new method for the identification of a parameter-dependent model that best describes a given system. This problem arises, for example, in the mathematical modeling of material behavior where several competing constitutive equations are available to describe a given material. In this case, the models are differential equations that arise from the different constitutive equations, and the unknown parameters are coefficients in the constitutive equations. One has to determine the best-suited constitutive equations for a given material and application from experiments. We assume that the true model is one of the N possible parameter-dependent models. To identify the correct model and the corresponding parameters, we can perform experiments, where for each experiment we prescribe an input to the system and observe a part of the system state. Our approach consists of two stages. In the first stage, for each pair of models we determine the experiment, i.e. system input and observation, that best differentiates between the two models, and measure the distance between the two models. Then we conduct N(N - 1) or, depending on the approach taken, N(N - 1)/2 experiments and use the result of the experiments as well as the previously computed model distances to determine the true model. We provide sufficient conditions on the model distances and measurement errors which guarantee that our approach identifies the correct model. Given the model, we identify the corresponding model parameters in the second stage. The problem in the second stage is a standard parameter estimation problem and we use a method suitable for the given application. We illustrate our approach on three examples, including one where the models are elliptic partial differential equations with different parameterized right-hand sides and an example where we identify the constitutive equation in a problem from computational viscoplasticity.
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