Application of the restrained optimal perturbation method to study the backward heat conduction problem

In this paper, a restrained optimal perturbation method is firstly proposed to solve the backward heat conduction problem, the initial temperature distribution will be identified from the overspecified data, a regularization term is introduced in the objective functional for overcoming the ill-posedness of this problem, spectral projected gradient algorithm is used to solve the optimal problem, and we give the sensitivity analysis of the initial value. The results of numerical experiments are also presented.