A meshless method for solving the nonlinear inverse Cauchy problem of elliptic type equation in a doubly-connected domain

Abstract

In the paper a nonlinear inverse Cauchy problem of nonlinear elliptic type partial differential equation in an arbitrary doubly-connected plane domain is solved using a novel meshless numerical method. The unknown Dirichlet data on an inner boundary are recovered by over-specifying the Cauchy data on an outer boundary. A homogenization function is derived to annihilate the Cauchy data on the outer boundary, and then a homogenization technique generates a transformed equation in terms of a transformed variable, whose outer Cauchy boundary conditions are homogeneous. When the numerical solution is expanded by a sequence of boundary functions, which automatically satisfy the homogeneous Cauchy boundary conditions on the outer boundary, we can solve the transformed equation by the domain type meshless collocation method. For the nonlinear inverse Cauchy problems we require to iteratively solve the linear systems with the right-hand sides varying per iteration step. The accuracy and robustness of the homogenization boundary function method (HBFM) are examined through seven numerical examples, where we compare the exact Dirichlet data on the inner boundary to the ones recovered by the HBFM under a large noisy disturbance.