Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4645272 | Applied Numerical Mathematics | 2013 | 19 Pages |
Abstract
In this paper, the inverse problem of identifying a space-dependent source for the time-fractional diffusion equation is investigated. Such a problem is obtained from the classical diffusion equation in which the time derivative is replaced with a Caputo derivative of order α∈(0,1]. We show that such a problem is ill-posed and apply the Tikhonov regularization method and a simplified Tikhonov regularization method to solve it based on the solution given by the separation of variables. Convergence estimates are presented under an a priori parameter choice rule and an a posteriori parameter choice rule, respectively. Finally, numerical examples are given to show that the regularization methods are effective and stable.
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