Reconstruction of the corrosion boundary for the Laplace equation by using a boundary collocation method

In this paper, we consider the identification of a corrosion boundary for the two-dimensional Laplace equation. A boundary collocation method is proposed for determining the unknown portion of the boundary from the Cauchy data on a part of the boundary. Since the resulting matrix equation is badly ill-conditioned, a regularized solution is obtained by employing the Tikhonov regularization technique, while the regularization parameter is provided by the generalized cross-validation criterion. Numerical examples show that the proposed method is reasonable and feasible.