Identification of a boundary obstacle in a Stokes fluid with Dirichlet--Navier boundary conditions: external measurements

TL;DR

This paper develops a numerical method to identify obstructions inside a 2D Stokes fluid duct using external acoustic measurements, with potential applications in medical diagnostics like detecting coronary stenosis.

Contribution

It introduces a new external measurement-based inverse problem framework for detecting obstructions in a Stokes flow with Dirichlet and Navier boundary conditions.

Findings

Effective identification of obstruction location, size, and height from external acoustic data.

Numerical examples demonstrate the method's accuracy and potential for practical applications.

Abstract

The problem of identifying an obstruction into a fluid duct has several applications, one of them, for example in medicine the presence of Stenosis in coronary vessels is a life threatening disease. In this paper, we formulate a continuous setting and study from a numerical perspective the inverse problem of identifying an obstruction contained in a 2D duct where a Stokes flow hits on the boundary (Dirichlet and Navier--slip boundary conditions), generating an acoustic wave. To be precise, by using acoustic wave measurements at certain points on the exterior of the duct, we can identify the location, extension and height of the obstruction. Thus, our framework constitutes an external approach to solving this obstacle-inverse problem. Synthetic examples are used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed numerical formulation.