The quasi-reversibility method for recovering a source in a fractional evolution equation

Abstract

In this paper, a quasi-reversibility method is used to solve an inverse spatial source problem of multi-term time-space fractional parabolic equation by observation at the terminal measurement data. We are mainly concerned with the case where the time source can be changed sign, which is practically important but has not been well explored in literature. Under certain conditions on the time source, we establish the uniqueness of the inverse problem, and also a Hölder-type conditional stability of the inverse problem is firstly given. Meanwhile, we prove a stability estimate of optimal order for the inverse problem. Then some convergence estimates for the regularized solution are proved under an a-priori and an a-posteriori regularization parameter choice rule. Finally, several numerical experiments illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in one-dimensional case.