
154 Chapter 5 Solution methods for ill-posed problems
We now provide a few statements concerning the use of these or those iteration
methods. In the program PROBLEM4, the possibility to use either the simple-iteration
method (constant iteration parameter) or the steepest descend method is provided.
A slight modification allows one to implement the iterative conjugate gradient method,
to be used in the case of problems with small right-hand side inaccuracies, in which
the steepest descend method fails to provide a desired rate of convergence.
The number of iterations necessary for solving the problem with δ = 0.1bythe
steepest descend method is n = 6. The total number of iterations in the simple-
iteration method versus the iteration parameter is illustrated by the data in Table 5.1.
τ 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3
n 43 21 14 11 9 32
Table 5.1 Total number of iterations in the simple-iteration method
In the iterative solution of (5.59), the optimal iteration parameter is τ = τ
0
= 2/ ¯γ
2
,
where
A
∗
A ≤¯γ
2
E,
can be estimated invoking the estimate ¯γ
2
< L
2
/H
2
.
5.6 Exercises
Exercise 5.1 Show that in the Tikhonov regularization method for the solution there
holds the a priori estimate
u
α
≤
1
2
√
α
f
δ
that expresses stability with respect to the right-hand side.
Exercise 5.2 Formulate conditions for convergence (analogue to Theorem 5.1, 5.2) of
the approximate solution in H
D
, D = D
∗
> 0 found by minimization of the functional
J
α
(v) =Av − f
δ
2
+ αv
2
D
.
Exercise 5.3 Construct an example illustrating the necessity of condition δ
2
/α(δ) →
0 with δ → 0 (Theorem 5.1) for convergence of the approximate solutions to the exact
solution in the Tikhonov method.
Exercise 5.4 Suppose that the exact solution of problem (5.1) is
A
−2
u≤M,
where M = const > 0, and for the right-hand side inaccuracy the estimate (5.2) holds.
Then, for the approximate solution u
α
found as the solution of problem (5.4), (5.5)
there holds the a priori estimate
z≤
δ
2
√
α
+ αM.