Lamm, Patricia K.; Murphy, Katherine A. Estimation of discontinuous coefficients and boundary parameters for hyperbolic systems. (English) Zbl 0645.65087 Q. Appl. Math. 46, No. 1, 1-22 (1988). This paper deals with the problem of identifying various distributed parameters of interest in (acoustic) seismic problems for piecewise smooth, one-dimensional (i.e. horizontally stratified) media. It extends the ideas of H. T. Banks and the second author [SIAM J. Control Optimization 24, 926-950 (1986; Zbl 0613.93018)] to the case of discontinuous coefficients, including the determination of the location of the discontinuities. The method employed requires the knowledge a priori of the number of discontinuities, although the first author [ibid. 25, 18-37 (1987; Zbl 0612.93014)] has shown in examples that this assumption is not too restrictive. Some numerical examples are included that show the viability of the method, as well as some indication on the practical aspects of its implementation, which are not apparent in the theoretical treatment of convergence which occupies the main bulk of the paper. A good grasp of previous development and of functional analysis is necessary to go through those theoretical results. Reviewer: V.Pereyra Cited in 1 Document MSC: 65Z05 Applications to the sciences 35R30 Inverse problems for PDEs 35L05 Wave equation 65J10 Numerical solutions to equations with linear operators 86A15 Seismology (including tsunami modeling), earthquakes 65N30 Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs 93B30 System identification 93C20 Control/observation systems governed by partial differential equations Keywords:boundary parameters; hyperbolic systems; inverse problems; parameter identification; identification of the wave equation; (acoustic) seismic problems; discontinuous coefficients; numerical examples; convergence Citations:Zbl 0613.93018; Zbl 0612.93014 PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{P. K. Lamm} and \textit{K. A. Murphy}, Q. Appl. Math. 46, No. 1, 1--22 (1988; Zbl 0645.65087) Full Text: DOI