摘要

We study in this paper the problem of determining time-dependent source functions in a parabolic equation with data given at some fixed locations in the domain. To solve this ill-posed inverse problem, we develop a mollification regularization method with a Gaussian kernel. We derive an a priori error estimate between the exact solution and its regularized approximation. Moreover, we propose an a posteriori parameter choice strategy for the selection of the regularization strength and derive an error estimate associated with the strategy. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the accuracy and efficiency of our method.