
178 Chapter 6 Right-hand side identification
first-kind operator equation. In the second possibility, the right-hand side identification
problem is considered as a problem in which it is required to calculate the values of a
bounded operator. The latter possibility was realized in the scheme (6.52), (6.53) for
problem (6.46)–(6.49). It also makes sense to dwell here on the standard variant of the
Tikhonov regularization.
With the given right-hand side f (x, t), the solution of the boundary value problem
(6.45)–(6.47) uniquely defines the solution u(x, t). To reflect this correspondence, we
introduce the operator G:
G f = u. (6.58)
Instead of u(x, t), the function u
δ
(x, t) is given and, in addition, the estimate (6.52)
holds.
The approximate solution f
α
of problem (6.49), (6.58) can be found as the solution
of the following problem:
J
α
( f
α
) = min
v∈H
J
α
(v), (6.59)
where
J
α
(v) = (Gv − u
δ
∗
)
2
+ α(v
∗
)
2
. (6.60)
The following important circumstance deserves mention. In using algorithm (6.52),
(6.53), constructed around the interpretation of the identification problem as an un-
bounded operator value problem, additional constraints on the sought function (bound-
ary conditions of type (6.56), (6.57)) are to be posed. This is not quite justified a pro-
cedure (see the results of numerical experiments on the identification of the right-hand
side of the ordinary differential equation in the previous section). No such problems
are encountered in using (6.59), (6.60).
6.2.3 Local regularization
In the approximate solution of the problem in which it is required to identify the right-
hand side of a non-stationary equation from known solution, one can more conve-
niently employ an algorithm that makes it possible to determine the right-hand side
at a given time using input information only at preceding times. Compared to the
global regularization algorithm, here we, speaking generally, loose in the approximate-
solution accuracy, but save time. Consider some basic possibilities in the construction
of local regularization algorithms for the approximate solution of the inverse problem
(6.46)–(6.49). We will dwell here on the local analogue of the regularization of type
(6.59), (6.60).
The basic idea uses the fact that the right-hand side is defined by the solution by
each fixed moment. In other words, the numerical differentiation procedure is to be
regularized only with respect to spatial variables. In fact, the input data are to be
smoothed considering only part of all variables. Such algorithms can be realized em-
ploying preliminary discretization over time.