Title
Recovering the electrical conductivity of the soil via a linear integral model.
Abstract
Electromagnetic induction techniques are often used to ascertain the presence of conductive substances in the subsoil. The device we are interested in generates an electromagnetic field and measures the secondary field produced by eddy currents induced by the primary field. We analyze a linear model which reproduces the device readings, consisting of a system of two Fredholm linear integral equations of the first kind. After studying the continuous problem in various function spaces, we describe three collocation methods to transform the integral equations into a system of linear equations, which is solved by a regularization technique. Numerical experiments show the performance of the different discretizations, and of a particular approach to deal with the integral truncation error. We also verify the influence on the solution of regularization matrices based on the discretization of the first and second derivative.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.cam.2018.11.034
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
65F22,65R20,86A22,45B05
Truncation error,Discretization,Second derivative,System of linear equations,Mathematical analysis,Matrix (mathematics),Integral equation,Regularization (mathematics),Electromagnetic field,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
352
0377-0427
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Patricia Diaz de Alba100.34
Luisa Fermo2174.62
Cornelis V. M. Van Der Mee3112.92
Giuseppe Rodriguez419729.43