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An alternating method for an inverse Cauchy problem

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In this paper, an iterative boundary element method based on our relaxed algorithm introduced in [8] is used to solve numerically a class of inverse boundary problems. A dynamical choice of the relaxation parameter is presented and a stopping criterion based on our theoretical results is used. The numerical results show that the algorithm produces a reasonably approximate solution and improves the rate of convergence of Kozlov's scheme [10].

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Jourhmane, M., Nachaoui, A. An alternating method for an inverse Cauchy problem. Numerical Algorithms 21, 247–260 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019134102565

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