
Section 8.2 Non-local distribution of boundary conditions 363
We denote the approximate solution of the boundary value inverse problem (8.49),
(8.50), (8.52), (8.53) as u
α
(x, t) and determine it from the equation
∂u
α
∂t
=
∂
∂x
k(x)
∂u
α
∂x
, 0 < x < l, 0 < t ≤ T. (8.54)
We leave the boundary condition (8.50) and the initial condition (8.52) unchanged:
k(x)
∂u
α
∂x
(0, t) = 0, 0 < t ≤ T, (8.55)
u
α
(x, 0) = 0, 0 ≤ x ≤ l. (8.56)
We replace the boundary condition (8.53), which makes the inverse problem (8.49),
(8.50), (8.52), (8.53) an ill-posed problem, with the following non-local condition:
u
α
(0, t) + αu
α
(l, t) = ϕ(t), 0 < t ≤ T. (8.57)
In (8.54)–(8.57), the passage to a non-local boundary value problem can be made
immediately. A second possibility in formulating such a non-classical problem is
based on the consideration of the Tikhonov regularization method for problem (8.54)–
(8.57) interpreted as a boundary control problem (the boundary condition at the right
end point is (8.51)) with boundary observation (at the left end point, the condition
(8.53) is adopted). Next, we can try to formulate a related Euler equation, which, as
we saw, leads to non-classical boundary value problems. What is necessary is to only
take the fact into account that in the case of interest both for the ground and conjugate
states we have evolutionary problems with non-selfadjoint operators.
8.2.3 Local regularization
As it was repeated over and over again, in the application of regularization methods to
evolutionary problems we have two possibilities. In global regularization methods the
solution is to be determined at all times simultaneously, whereas in local regularization
methods the solution depends only on the pre-history, and can be determined sequen-
tially at separate times. Local regularization methods take into account the specific
feature of inverse problems for evolutionary problems in maximal possible measure.
Over time, we introduce the uniform grid
¯ω
τ
={t
n
= nτ, n = 0, 1,...,N
0
,τN
0
= T },
and let u
n
(x) = u(x, t
n
). In the approximate solution of the inverse problem (8.54)–
(8.57), we perform the transition to the next time layer using the purely implicit scheme