Inverse estimation of the unknown heat flux boundary with irregular shape fins (Q656733)

The paper investigates numerically the problem for reconstructing boundary conditions of the heat equation in an irregular shape fin using measurements of the temperature distribution at some parts of the boundary. It proposes a numerical method in which the problem is discretized using the finite element method and the future time method is used to reconstruct the heat flux on the boundary. Some numerical results are shown to demonstrate the performance of the algorithm.