A meshless method to determine a source term in heat equation with radial basis functions (Q463181)

Summary: This paper considers a numerical method based on radial basis functions for an inverse problem for the heat equation; the inverse problem is determining an unknown source term subject to the overdetermination along with the usual initial-boundary conditions, and the unknown source term is only time-dependent. The radial basis functions method is a meshless method with high accuracy for the inverse problem. Some numerical experiments using this method are presented and discussed.