A Mollification Regularization Method for a Fractional-Diffusion Inverse Heat Conduction Problem

Abstract

The ill-posed problem of attempting to recover the temperature functions from one measured transient data temperature at some interior point of a one-dimensional semi-infinite conductor when the governing linear diffusion equation is of fractional type is discussed. A simple regularization method based on Dirichlet kernel mollification techniques is introduced. We also proposea priorianda posterioriparameter choice rules and get the corresponding error estimate between the exact solution and its regularized approximation. Moreover, a numerical example is provided to verify our theoretical results.