TY - JOUR T1 - Tikhonov Regularisation Method for Simultaneous Inversion of the Source Term and Initial Data in a Time-Fractional Diffusion Equation JO - East Asian Journal on Applied Mathematics VL - 3 SP - 273 EP - 300 PY - 2018 DA - 2018/02 SN - 5 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/eajam.310315.030715a UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/eajam/10810.html KW - Time-fractional diffusion equation, conditional stability, Tikhonov regularisation, Morozov discrepancy principle, convergence rate. AB -

The inverse problem of identifying the time-independent source term and initial value simultaneously for a time-fractional diffusion equation is investigated. This inverse problem is reformulated into an operator equation based on the Fourier method. Under a certain smoothness assumption, conditional stability is established. A standard Tikhonov regularisation method is proposed to solve the inverse problem. Furthermore, the convergence rate is given for an a priori and a posteriori regularisation parameter choice rule, respectively. Several numerical examples, including one-dimensional and two-dimensional cases, show the efficiency of our proposed method.