Identifying an unknown source term in a heat equation

作者:Dou Fang Fang; Fu Chu Li*; Yang Fan
来源:Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering, 2009, 17(7): 901-913.
DOI:10.1080/17415970902916870

摘要

We consider the problem of identifying an unknown source which depends on the spatial variable, in a heat equation. This is an ill-posed problem in the sense that the solution (if it exists) does not depend continuously on the data. To obtain a stable numerical solution, we propose an interesting regularization method based on the idea of quasi-reversibility method. The error estimate between the exact solution and its regularized approximation is given. We also discuss the numerical implementation and give several examples to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.