New Regularization and Error Estimate for the Cauchy Problem of the Nonlinear Helmholtz-Type Equation

Abstract

In this paper, the Cauchy problem of the nonlinear Helmholtz-type equation is discussed. This problem is well known to be severely ill-posed. Compared with linear equations, nonlinear equations are more difficult to deal with because of their lack of linearity. In order to obtain the approximate solution of this nonlinear problem, a combination of the quasi-boundary value method and the quasi-reversibility method is proposed. Using the variable separation method, the approximate solution is equivalent to solving a class of integral equations. The well-posedness of the approximation problem is proved by the Banach fixed-point theorem. Convergence analysis and error estimation are discussed. Since the convergence of error estimates cannot be obtained by the traditional a-priori bound, we introduce a new a-priori bound to obtain the convergence of error estimates, and the Hölder-type error estimate is achieved. Finally, some numerical experiments are given to corroborate the qualitative analysis and show the regularization method works well.