A nonlinear case of the 1-D backward heat problem: regularization and error estimate (Q2454954)

Summary: We consider the problem of finding, from the final data \(u(x,T)=\varphi(x)\), the temperature function \(u(x,t)\), \(x\in (0,\pi)\), \(t\in [0,T]\) satisfies the following nonlinear system \[ u_t-u_{xx}=f(x,t,u(x,t)),\quad (x,t)\in (0,\pi)\times(0,T), \] \[ u(0,t)=u(\pi,t)=0,\quad t\in(0,T) . \] The nonlinear problem is severely ill-posed. We improve the quasi-boundary value method to regularize the problem and to get some error estimates. The approximation solution is calculated by the contraction principle. A numerical experiment is given.