Inverse Problem Solution using Bayesian Approach with Application to Darcy Flow Material Parameters Estimation

Anotace: Standard numerical methods for solving inverse problems in partial differential equations do not reflect a possible inaccuracy in observed data. However, in real engineering applications we cannot avoid uncertainties caused by measurement errors. In the Bayesian approach every unknown or inaccurate value is treated as a random variable. This paper presents an application of the Bayesian inverse approach to the reconstruction of a porosity field as a parameter of the Darcy flow problem. However, this framework can be applied to a wide range of problems that involve some amount of uncertainty. Here the material field is modeled as a Gaussian random field, which is expressed as a function of several random variables. The information about these random variables is given by the resulting posterior distribution, which is then studied using the Cross-Entropy method and samples are generated using the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm.