Two regularization methods for a spherically symmetric inverse heat conduction problem

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a spherically symmetric inverse heat conduction problem of determining the internal surface temperature of a hollow sphere from the measured data at a fixed location inside it. This is an ill-posed problem in the sense that the solution (if it exists) does not depend continuously on the data. A Tikhonov type's regularization method and a Fourier regularization method are applied to formulate regularized solutions which are stably convergent to the exact ones with order optimal error estimates. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.