摘要

This paper studies a prototype of inverse intial boundary value problems whose govering equation is the heat equation in three dimensions. An unknown discontinuity embedded in a three-dimensional heat conductive body is considered. A single set of the temperature and fluxon the lateral boundary for a fixed observation time is given as an observation datum. It is shown that this datum yields the minimum length of broken paths that start at a given point outside the body, go to a point on the boundary of the unknown discontinuity and return to a point on the boundary of the body under some conditions on the input heat flux, the unknown discontinuity and the body. this is new information obtained by using enclosure method.

  • 出版日期2014-11