Quasi-reversibility method to identify a space-dependent source for the time-fractional diffusion equation》.pdf

Applied Mathematical Modelling xxx (2015) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Mathematical Modelling journal homepage: www.else /locate/apm Quasi-reversibility method to identify a space-dependent source for the time-fractional diffusion equation Jun-Gang Wang, Ting Wei ⇑ School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In this study, we consider a problem of recovering a space-dependent source for the time- Received 31 December 2012 fractional diffusion equation, where the additional data is the observation at a final Received in revised form 10 December 2014 moment t ¼ T. We develop a quasi-reversibility method to overcome the ill-posedness of Accepted 8 January 2015 the problem. The convergence estimates under an a priori parameter choice rule and an Available online xxxx a posteriori parameter choice rule are proved, respectively. Finally, numerical examples are presented which demonstrate the effectiveness of the regularization methods and con- Keywords: firm the theoretical claims. Inverse problem 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Fractional diffusion equation Quasi-reversibility method A priori parameter choice A posteriori parameter choice 1. Introduction In this paper, we are concern