Simultaneous recovery of a corroded boundary and admittance using the Kohn-Vogelius method

We address the problem of identifying an unknown portion $Γ$ of the boundary of a $d$-dimensional ($d \in \{1, 2\}$) domain $Ω$ and its associated Robin admittance coefficient, using two sets of boundary Cauchy data $(f, g)$--representing boundary temperature and heat flux--measured on the accessible portion $Σ$ of the boundary. Identifiability results \cite{Bacchelli2009,PaganiPierotti2009} indicate that a single measurement on $Σ$ is insufficient to uniquely determine both $Γ$ and $α$, but two independent inputs yielding distinct solutions ensure the uniqueness of the pair $Γ$ and $α$. In this paper, we propose a cost function based on the energy-gap of two auxiliary problems. We derive the variational derivatives of this objective functional with respect to both the Robin boundary $Γ$ and the admittance coefficient $α$. These derivatives are utilized to develop a nonlinear gradient-based iterative scheme for the simultaneous numerical reconstruction of $Γ$ and $α$. Numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed method. ; in \textit{Computational Methods for Inverse Problems and Applications}, ICMDS 2024, Khouribga, Morocco, October 21--22, 2024, Springer Proc. Math. Stat., vol. 498, Springer, Cham, 2025