Sunday, June 13, 1999

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Conference Registration

4:30 p.m. - 5:20 p.m. INVITED SPEAKER:
Multidisciplinary Inverse Problems
George S. Dulikravich
Pennsylvania State University

SESSION I: APPLICATIONS OF INVERSE PROBLEMS
Session Chair: Keith A. Woodbury

Paper 1 Independent Component Analysis for EEG Source
Localization in Realistic Head Models
Leonid Zhukov, David Weinstein and Chris Johnson
Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, USA

Paper 2 Retrieving the Flexural Rigidity of a Beam From
Deflection Measurements
Daniel Lesnic, Department of Applied Mathematical Studies, University of Leeds, UK

6:40 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Dinner

Paper 3 Ill-posed Problems in Close Loop Predictive Control
Tomas Hruz

Paper 4 Estimation of Electronic Circuit Temperature Solving an
Inverse Problem
Marcin Janicki and Andrzej Napieralski

Paper 5 Estimation of Distributions of Eigen-Strains Based on
Their Decomposition Into Compatible and Incompatible Components
Shiro Kubo, Naruhito Yamamoto and Hideyuki Nakai
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Systems, Osaka University, Japan

9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Social Hour

Monday, June 14, 1999

7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast

8:30 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. INVITED SPEAKER:
Applications of the Boundary Element Method to Some Inverse Problems in Engineering Mechanics
Masahiro Tanaka
Shinshu University

SESSION II: IDENTIFICATION I
Session Chair: George Dulikravich

Paper 1 Noise Source Identification of a Railway Car Model by
the Boundary Element Method Using Sound Pressure Measurements in 2-D Infinite Half Space
Masataka Tanaka and Toshiro Matsumoto
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Japan
Kazuyuki Sakamoto
Graduate School of Shinshu University, Japan

Paper 2 On the Identification of Non Linear Material Behaviour
From Indentation Tests
N. Tardieu and A. Constantinescu
Laboratoire de Mecanique des Solides, Ecole Polytechnique, France

Paper 3 Identification of Initial State of Materials by Thermo-
Mechanical Tests Results
H. Adrar
Laboratoire de Modélisation des Structures et Essais en Mécanique (LMSEM), France
M. Reynier
LMT-ENS-CACHAN, France

Paper 4 New Results on the Non-Linearity and Stability of the
Estimation of the Diffusion Coefficient in a 2D Elliptic
Equation
Guy Chavent

10:45 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Coffee Break

Paper 5 Identification of Mechanical Properties of Multilayered
Structures and Functionally Gradient Materials
Hideo Koguchi
Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan

Paper 6 Parameterization Refinement Indicators for the
Estimation of Diffusion Coefficients
Guy Chavent

Paper 7 Weightless Regularised Identification Using Multi-
Objective Optimisation Method
Tomonari Furukawa, Shinobu Yoshimura and Genki Yagawa
Department of Quantum Engineering and Systems Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. TUTORIAL SESSION I
Sequential Methods in Parameter Estimation
James V. Beck

3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Coffee Break

3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. TUTORIAL SESSION II
Sequential Function Specification Method
Keith A. Woodbury
University of Alabama

SESSION III: MECHANICS
Session Chair: Shiro Kubo

Paper 1 Optimization of Measurements for Inverse Problem
Kenji Amaya and Shigeru Aoki
Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Japan

Paper 2 A BEM - and Adjoint Variable-Based Approach to Crack
Shape Sensitivity Analysis and Identification
Marc Bonnet
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Tadeusz Burczynski, W. Beluch and Marek Novakowski
Department for Strength of Materials and Computational Mechanics, Silesian Technical University, Poland

Paper 3 Problems and Solutions in Identification of the
Parameters of Mechanical Joints
J.H. Wang and M.J. Yang
Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Paper 4 Flow Parameter Estimation Using the Navier-Stokes
Equations
Aleksey K. Alekseev
Department of Aerodynamics & Heat Transfer, RSC "Energia", Russia

Paper 5 A Fixed-Point Algorithm for the Inverse Solution of Fluid Flow Equations
Luis C. Santos

Paper 6 An Inverse Problem For Slow Viscous Incompressible Flows
D. Lesnic, L. Elliot, D. B. Ingham and A. Zeb

7:45 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Dinner

9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Social Hour

Tuesday, June 15, 1999

7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast

8:30 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. INVITED SPEAKER:
Iterative methods for solving inverse coefficient problem for stationary heat conduction equation
Alexander M. Denisov
Moscow State University

SESSION IV: MATHEMATICS
Session Chair: Diego Murio

Paper 1 On the one Method of the Volterra Kernel's Identification
Apartsyn Anatolii Solomonovich
Energy Systems Institute SB RAS, Russia

Paper 2 Regularized Functional Calculi and Their Applications
to Solving Linear Inverse Problems
Alex Timonov
The University of Victoria, Canada

Paper 3 Effective Approaches Using Combinatorics to Solve
Inverse Problems in 2-D Systems
Edward Rydigier and Zdzislaw Trzaska

10:45 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Coffee Break

Paper 4 An Inverse Problem of Identifying Robin's Coefficient
Slim Chaabane and Mohamed Jaoua
ENIT-LAMSIN, Tunisie

Paper 5 Parameter Identification by Generalised Secant Method
Peter Berzi
DYNATEST, Hungary

Paper 6 Statistical Regularization for Thermal Problems With
Uncertain Parameters
A.F. Emery

Paper 7 Possibility of Well-Posed Analysis and Super-Resolution
Analysis of Inverse Initial Value Problem for Unstable or
Chaotic Phenomena
Shiro Kubo and Tatsuro Nohara
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Systems, Osaka University, Japan

Paper 8 New Discrepancy Principle For Selection Of The Effective Rank In Singular Value Decomposition For Regularization Of An Elastostatic Inverse Boundary Value Problem
S. Kubo and Y. Murakami
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Systems, Osaka University, Japan

Paper 9 An Algorithm Construction Method for Inverse Problem Solution Stable to the Description Errors
O. M. Alifanov , I. Gedzadze
Department of Space System Engineering, Moscow State Aviation Institute, Russia

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. TUTORIAL SESSION III
Adjoint Methods
Yvon Jarny
ISITEM, University of Nantes

3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Coffee Break

3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. TUTORIAL SESSION IV
Mollification and Space-Marching
Diego Murio
University of Cincinnati

SESSION V: HEAT TRANSFER I
Session Chair: J.V. Beck

Paper 1 Resolution of a Three-Dimensional Unsteady
Inverse Problem By Sequential Method Using Parameter Reduction and Infrared Thermography
David Nortershauser and Pierre Millan
ONERA Toulouse, France

Paper 2 Retrieval of Vertical Temperature Profiles in the
Atmosphere
Joao C. Carvalho, Fernando M. Ramos, Nelso J. Ferreira and Haroldo F. Campos Velho
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil

Paper 3 Numerical and Experimental Simulation for Cutting
Temperature Estimation Using Three-Dimensional
Inverse Heat Conduction Technique
Frederico R.S. Lima, Saulo Gutts, Alisson R. Machado and
Gilmar Guimaraes
Department of Mechanical Engineering / Federal University of
Uberlandia, Brazil

Paper 4 Computational and Experimental Estimation of
Boundary Conditions for a Flat Specimen
S. Abboudi, E. Artiouknine, and H. Riad
LERMPS, Institut Polytechnique de Sévenans, France
E. Artioukhine
Institut de Génie Energétique, France

Paper 5 Heat Flux Estimation in Thin-Layer Drying
O. Fudym, C. Carrère-Gée, D. Lecomte and B. Ladevie
Center Energétique-Environement, Ecole des Mines d'Albi, France

Paper 6 Simultaneous Estimation of Kinetic Parameters
Using Genetic Algorithms
Sandrine Garcia, Bertrand Garnier and Yvon Jarny
ISITEM - Laboratoire de Thermocinétique UMR, France

Paper 7 Monitoring the Wear-Line of a Melting Furnace
Karstein Sorli
SINTEF, Applied Mathematics, Norway
Inge Morten Skaar
NTNU Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norway

Paper 8 Nonlinear Parameter Estimation in Laminar Forced
Convection Inside Circular Sector Tube
J.B. Aparecido
Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica/FEIS/UNESP, Brazil
M.N. Ozisik
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, NCSU

Paper 9 Arranging the Heat Sources in the Fixed Location
with the Regard for the Restrictions on a
Temperature Field
Andrey Kostikov and Yuri Matsevity
Institute of Mechanical Engineering Problems at National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine

7:45 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Dinner

9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Poster Session and Social Hour

Wednesday, June 16, 1999

7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast

8:30 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. INVITED SPEAKER:
Regularization Tools and Models in Image and Signal Reconstruction
Jerome Idier
Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes

SESSION VI: IMAGING
Session Chair: Marc Bonnet

Paper 1 New Reconstruction Algorithms in Electrical Impedance
Tomography Based on Nonlinear Optimization
Thierry Condamines
I.R.I.T., France

Paper 2 Inverse Problems for Biomedical Characterization and
Imaging
N.J. McCormick
Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Washington, USA

Paper 3 A Generalized Approach for Atomic Force Microscopy
Image Restoration With Bregman Distances as Tikhonov Regularization Terms
Antônio J. Silva Neto
Instituto Politécnico, UERJ, Brazil
Geraldo A.G. Cidade and Celia Anteneodo
Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chaga Filho, CCS/UFRJ, Brazil
Nilson Costa Roberty
Nuclear Engineering Program, COPPE/UFRI, Brazil

Paper 4 Iterative Regularization Methods in Inverse Scattering
Thorsten Hohage
Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Austria

10:45 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Coffee Break

Paper 5 3-D Tomographic Reconstruction of sign-altering Functions by the Maximum Entropy Method
A.L. Balandin
Paper 6 An Evolutionary Approach in Magnetotelluric Inversion
Pedro Luis Kantek Garcia Navarro
CELEPAR, Brazil
Pedro P.B. de Oliveira
UNIVAP-IP&D
Fernando M. Ramos and Haroldo F. de Campos Velho
LAC-INPE

Paper 7 A Source-Detector Methodology for the Construction
and Solution of the One-Dimensional Inverse Transport
Equation
Adriana T. Kauati
Biomedical Engineering Program, COPPE/EFRJ, Brazil
Antônio J. Silva Neto
Instituto Politécnico, UERJ, Brazil
Nilson Costa Roberty
Nuclear Engineering Program, COPPE/EFRJ, Brazil

Paper 8 Multiple Source Inversion of Helmholtz in Cylindrical
Geometry
Frank Stenger
Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, USA
Ronny Ramlau
Postdam University

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Ah hoc sessions and/or free time

SESSION VII: HEAT TRANSFER II
Session Chair: Ashley F. Emery

Paper 1 Numerical Solution of Generalized 2-D IHCP by
Discrete Mollification
Shenghe Zhan, Crista Coles, and Diego A. Murio
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati, USA

Paper 2 Estimation of Distributed Heat Sources Within
Two Dimensional Shaped Bodies
Refahi Abou Kachefe and Yvon Jarny
ISITEM - Laboratoire de Thermocinétique U.M.R., Université de Nantes, France

Paper 3 Study of Micron Scale Thermal Properties of Layered
Samples by Inversion of Photothermal Measurements: Application to Gun Tubes Inner Coatings
Gervaise Cedric
ENSICA, France

Paper 4 Estimation of the Apparent Mass Diffusion Coefficient
by Using Inverse Analysis and Radiation Measurement
Techniques
L.M. Pereira, R. de Souza, H.R.B. Orlande and R.M. Cotta
Department of Mechanical Engineering, EE/COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Paper 5 A Comparison of Different Parameter Estimation
Methods for the Identification of Thermal Conductivity
Components of Orthotropic Solids
Marcelo M. Mejias and Helcio R.B. Orlande
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
M.N. Ozisik
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA

Paper 6 Some Methods to Estimate the Thermal Conductivity
of Insulating Media - Application to the Characterization
of Fluids in Laminar Couette Flow
B. Ladevie and O. Fudym
Centre Energétique-Environement, Ecole des Mines d'Albi, France
J.C. Batsale
LEPT ENSAM, France

Paper 7 Flash Experiment on a Semi-Transparent Material: Interest of a Reduced Model.
Stéphane Andre, Myriam Lazard, Denis Maillet, D. Doermann and
Alain Degiovanni
LEMTA - UMR CNRS, France

Paper 8 Estimation of the Temperature and Concentration
Profiles of a Hot Combustion Gas
I. Darbord and P. Herve
Université Paris X, France
E.A. Artioukhine
Institut de Génie Energétique, France

Paper 9 Estimation on the Initial Temperature Profile and the
Heat Transfer Coefficient in Polymer Processing by an
Inverse Method
A. Bendada and Ky T. Nguyen
Industrial Materials Institute, Canada

7:45 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Dinner

9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Poster Session and Social Hour

Thursday, June 17, 1999

7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast

8:30 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. INVITED SPEAKER:
Experiment and Analysis in Geophysical Applications
Ted Watson
Texas A&M

SESSION VIII: OPTIMIZATION AND EXPERIMENT DESIGN
Session Chair: Alexsey Nenarokomov

Paper 1 Comparison of Two Kinds of Experiments for
Estimation Of Thermal Properties of Ablative
Composite
Ljubica P. Kanevce, Gligor H. Kanevce and Zore Z. Angelevski
Faculty of Technical Sciences, "St. Kliment Ohridski" University, Macedonia

Paper 2 Optimization Tools for Inverse Problems Using the
Nonlinear L- and A-Curve
Mårten Gulliksson and P. Ao. Weidin
Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Sweden

Paper 3 Experimental Design: Importance in Petroleum
Engineering
Jan-Erik Nordtvedt, G Naevdal, H. Urkedal, A. Berg, T. Mannseth, and E. H. Vefring
RF - Rogaland Research, Norway

10:45 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Coffee Break

Paper 4 Experiment Design and Optimization With Inverse
Analysis for Polymers Thermal Properties Estimation
Gil de Carvalho and Antônio J. Silva Neto
Instituto Politécnico, UERJ, Brazil

Paper 5 Optimal Experimental Design for Inverse Problems
Mikhail Romanovski
POINT Ltd., Russia

Paper 6 Optimization Method for Two-Phase Inverse Stefan
Problems
Radoslaw Grzymkowski and Damian Slota
Institute of Mathematics, Silesian Technical Univesity, Poland

Paper 7 Design of Experiments to Estimate Temperature
Dependent Thermal Properties
Kevin Dowding, Tom Voth and Ben Blackwell

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Ah hoc sessions and/or free time

SESSION IX: IDENTIFICATION II
Session Chair: Yvon Jarny

Paper 1 Inverse Identification and Updating in Vibrations of
Piping Systems
Michael Gaudin
DER Electricite de France, France
Slaheddine Frikha
LM²S URA CNRS, France

Paper 2 Buried Cracks Determination Via the Reciprocity Gap
Principle
A Ben Abda and m. Kallel
Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis, Laboratoire de Modélisation Numériques dans les Sciences, Tunisie

Paper 3 Variation Boundary Integral Equation for Flaw Shape
Identification
Rafael Gallego and Javier Suarez
Department of Structural Mechanics, Universidad de Granada, Spain

Paper 4 Nonlinearity, Scale, and Sensitivity for Parameter
Estimation Problems; Some Implications for Estimation
Algorithms
Trond Mannseth, Jan Erik Nordvedt and Geir Nævdal
RF-Rogaland Research, Norway
Kari Brusdal
Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Norway

Paper 5 Nonlinearity, Scale, and Sensitivity for Parameter
Estimation Problems; Some Implications for Error
Analysis
Trond Mannseth and Jan Erik Nordtvedt
RF-Rogaland Research, Norway
Alv-Arne Grimstad and Kristofer Kolltveit
Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Norway

Paper 6 Recovery of a Density From the Eigen Values of
a Nonhomogeneous Membrane
C. Maeve McCarthy
Mathematics and Statistics Department, Murray State University, USA

Paper 7 Assessing the Frame Structure Integrity by the
Vibration Method in Light of the System Identification Problems
Nguyen Tien Khiem
The Institute of Mechanics, Vietnam

8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Conference Banquet and Social Hour

Friday, June 18, 1999

7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

SESSION X: HEAT TRANSFER III
Session Chair: Kevin Dowding

Paper 1 Numerical Solution of Inverse Heat Exchange Problems
by Parameter Estimation of Ordinary Differential
Equations
S.A. Gusev
Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Paper 2 A Boundary Inverse Heat Conduction Problem With
Phase Change for Moisture-Bearing Porous Medium
Q. Ke and K.A. Woodbury

Paper 3 Optimum Control Problems Solution by Means of
Inverse Method of Adaptive Iterative Filter
Alexander V. Moultanovsky
Bergstrom Inc, USA

10:15 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. Coffee Break

Paper 4 Natural Base Construction for Absorption Coefficient
Estimation in Heterogeneous Participating Media With
Divergent Beams
Raúl F.C. Montero and Nilson C. Roberty
Nuclear Engineering Program, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil
Antônio J. Silva Neto
Instituto Politécnico, UERJ, Brazil

Paper 5 Numerical Evaluation of Coefficients of Multidimensional
Heat Equation by Stochastic Differential Equations
S.A. Gusev
Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Paper 6 The Estimation of Heat Source Strength in Plate-Type
Fuel Elements with Cladding
Antônio J. Silva Neto
Instituto Politécnico, UERJ, Brazil
Jian Su
Nuclear Engineering Program, COPPE/EFRJ, Brazil

Paper 7 Inverse Problem Solution for Diffusion and Oxidation
Processes in Materials for Gas Turbine Blades
P.G. Krukovsky and E.S. Kartavova
Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Ukraine

Paper 8 Parameter Identification of Radiative and Conductive
Heat Transfer in the Sintering Glass Materials
Sergey V. Reznik, Dmitry Yu. Kalinin, Andrey M. Mikhalev, Pavel V. Prosuntsov and Andrey V. Shulakovsky
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia

Paper 9 Identification of Lumped Parameter Systems
A.V. Nenarokomov and O.M. Alifanov
Department of Space System Engineering, Moscow State Aviation Institute, Russia

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Conference Adjournment

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