Yang, Liu; Deng, Zui-Cha; Yu, Jian-Ning; Luo, Guan-Wei Two regularization strategies for an evolutional type inverse heat source problem. (English) Zbl 1181.35341 J. Phys. A, Math. Theor. 42, No. 36, Article ID 365203, 16 p. (2009). Summary: This paper investigates an evolutional type inverse problem of determining an unknown heat source function in heat conduction equations when the solution is known in a discrete point set. Being different from other ordinary inverse source problems which often rely on only one variable, the unknown coefficient in this paper depends not only on the space variable \(x\), but also on time \(t\). Two regularization strategies which are called the time semi-discrete scheme (TSDS) and the integral reconstruction scheme (IRS), respectively, are proposed to deal with such a problem. By the TSDS the inverse problem is transformed into a sequence of stationary inverse problems and the unknown heat source is reconstructed layer by layer, while the IRS is to recover the source function from the situation as a whole. Both theoretical and numerical studies are provided. Two numerical algorithms on the basis of the Landweber iteration are designed, and some typical numerical experiments are performed in this paper. The numerical results show that the proposed methods are stable and the unknown heat source is recovered very well. Cited in 8 Documents MSC: 35R30 Inverse problems for PDEs 49J20 Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations 65M60 Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs 65M32 Numerical methods for inverse problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs 80A23 Inverse problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer 80M10 Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer Keywords:evolutional type inverse problem; heat source; regularization; time semi-discrete scheme; integral reconstruction scheme PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{L. Yang} et al., J. Phys. A, Math. Theor. 42, No. 36, Article ID 365203, 16 p. (2009; Zbl 1181.35341) Full Text: DOI