Simultaneous determination of time-dependent coefficients and heat source

This article presents a numerical solution to the inverse problems of simultaneous determination of the time-dependent coefficients and the source term in the parabolic heat equation subject to overspecified conditions of integral type. The ill-posed problems are numerically discretized using the finite-difference method. The resulting system of nonlinear equations is solved numerically using the MATLAB toolbox routine lsqnonlin applied to minimizing the nonlinear Tikhonov regularization functional subject to simple physical bounds on the variables. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the accuracy and stability of the solution.