A parabolic inverse convection-diffusion-reaction problem solved using space-time localization and adaptivity

This paper investigates the solution of a parabolic inverse problem based upon the convection-diffusion-reaction equation, which can be used to estimate both water and air pollution. We will consider both known and unknown source location: while in the first case the problem is solved using a Projected Damped Gauss Newton (PDGN), in the second one it is ill-posed and an adaptive parametrization with space-time localization will be adopted to regularize it.