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In a forward problem the system geometry, the governing equations, and the boundary and initial conditions are fully specified. The goal of solving such problem is to determine the dependent field variable, e.g., the temperature in a thermal problem and the stress or displacement field in a solid mechanics problem. In contrast, in an inverse problem either the system geometry, the governing equations, or the boundary and initial conditions are not fully specified, and the goal is to determine this unknown with the aid of some overspecified conditions. There are many such inverse problems which naturally arise in engineering and science. Surveys of inverse problem applications in heat transfer are given in [1,2], and applications to flaw detection and measuring residual stresses are found in [3–5].
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Kassab, A.J., Moslehy, F.A., Ulrich, T.W., Pollard, J. (1995). Inverse Boundary Element Solution for Locating Subsurface Cavities in Thermal and Elastostatic Problems. In: Atluri, S.N., Yagawa, G., Cruse, T. (eds) Computational Mechanics ’95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79654-8_499
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