Identification of source locations in two-dimensional heat equations. (English) Zbl 1112.35147

Ling, Leevan; Yamamoto, Masahiro; Hon, Y. C.; Takeuchi, Tomoya

Inverse Probl. 22, No. 4, 1289-1305 (2006).

Summary: We show the uniqueness of the identification of unknown source locations in two-dimensional heat equations from scattered measurements. Based on the assumption that the unknown source function is a sum of some known functions, we prove that one measurement point is sufficient to identify the number of sources and three measurement points are sufficient to determine all unknown source locations. For verification, we propose a numerical reconstruction scheme for recovering the number of unknown sources and all source locations.

MSC:

35R30	Inverse problems for PDEs
35K20	Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations