Mathematical Problems in Engineering 
Volume 8 (2002), Issue 2, Pages 161-168
doi:10.1080/10241230212907

Numerical method of identification of an unknown source term in a heat equation

Afet Golayoğlu Fatullayev

University of Kocaeli, Department of Mathematics, 41100 Anitpark, lzmit, Kocaeli, Turkey

Received 5 January 2000

Abstract

A numerical procedure for an inverse problem of identification of an unknown source in a heat equation is presented. Approach of proposed method is to approximate unknown function by polygons linear pieces which are determined consecutively from the solution of minimization problem based on the overspecified data. Numerical examples are presented.