F.J.C.P. Soeiro, H.F. de Campos Velho, A.J. da Silva Neto (2003): A combination of artificial neural networks and the Levemberg-Marquardt method for the solution of inverse heat conduction problems, VI Encontro de Modelagem Computacional (VI Meeting on Computational Modeling), 01-03 December Nova Friburgo (RJ), Brazil.

Abstract: In the present work a multi-layer perceptron neural network is used to obtain initial estimates to solve a heat conduction inverse problem using a gradient based method (Levemberg-Marquardt).