Identification of aquifer point sources and partial boundary condition from partial overspecified boundary data

Abstract In this work, we present a new mathematical method that allows recovering of the wells fluxes and hydraulic heads on a part of the boundary where they are not known, for an aquifer domain having overspecified boundary data on another part of its boundary. The method is based on the minimisation of an energy-like error functional of Andrieux and Ben Abda [Inverse Probl. 22 (2006) 115–133] for the missing-data recovering step and on the Reciprocity Gap principle of the same authors [Inverse Probl. 12 (1996) 553–564] for point sources identification.