Semidiscrete central difference method in time for determining surface temperatures (Q2566592)

Summary: We consider an inverse heat conduction problem in a quarter plane. We want to know the distribution of surface temperature in a body from a measured temperature history at a fixed location inside the body. This is a severely ill-posed problem in the sense that the solution (if exists) does not depend continuously on the data. \textit{L. Eldén} [Inverse Probl. 11, No. 4, 913--923 (1995; Zbl 0839.35143)] has used a difference method for solving this problem, but he did not obtain the convergence at \(x=0\). We give a logarithmic stability of the approximation solution at \(x=0\) under a stronger a priori assumption \(\|u(0,t)\|_p\leq E\) with \(p>1/2\). A numerical example shows that the computational effect of this method is satisfactory.