A modified Tikhonov regularization method for a class of inverse parabolic problems

Abstract This paper deals with the problem of determining an unknown source and an unknown initial condition in a abstract final value parabolic problem. This problem is ill-posed in the sense that the solutions do not depend continuously on the data. To solve the considered problem a modified Tikhonov regularization method is proposed. Using this method regularized solutions are constructed and under boundary conditions assumptions, convergence estimates between the exact solutions and their regularized approximations are obtained. Moreover numerical results are presented to illustrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method.