Identification of Source Term for the Time-Fractional Diffusion-Wave Equation by Fractional Tikhonov Method

In this article, we consider an inverse problem to determine an unknown source term in a space-time-fractional diffusion equation. The inverse problems are often ill-posed. By an example, we show that this problem is NOT well-posed in the Hadamard sense, i.e., this problem does not satisfy the last...

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Main Authors: Le Dinh Long, Nguyen Hoang Luc, Yong Zhou, and Can Nguyen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-10-01
Series:Mathematics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/7/10/934
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Summary:In this article, we consider an inverse problem to determine an unknown source term in a space-time-fractional diffusion equation. The inverse problems are often ill-posed. By an example, we show that this problem is NOT well-posed in the Hadamard sense, i.e., this problem does not satisfy the last condition-the solution&#8217;s behavior changes continuously with the input data. It leads to having a regularization model for this problem. We use the Tikhonov method to solve the problem. In the theoretical results, we also propose <i>a priori</i> and <i>a posteriori</i> parameter choice rules and analyze them.
ISSN:2227-7390