Parameter Identification in Industrial Problems via Iterative Regularization Methods

Alan Tayler, one of the founders of ECMI, influenced our work in various ways. For instance, the intensive cooperation between Milano and Linz in the field of polymer crystallization, see, e.g., [BCE99], was triggered by ECMI. Furthermore, Alan and his colleagues at Oxford, especially Hilary and John Ockendon, educated us in the theory of asymptotic and analytical methods for partial differential equations. In our opinion, a combination of these techniques with numerics will become more and more crucial for solving complex industrial problems. We hope to be able to illustrate this by the industrially motivated parameter identification problems treated in this paper.