A FRACTIONAL LANDWEBER ITERATION METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS INVERSION IN A TIME-FRACTIONAL DIFFUSION EQUATION

Abstract

In the present paper, we study the problem to identify the space-dependent source term and initial value simultaneously for a time-fractional diffusion equation. This inverse problem is ill-posed, and we use the idea of decoupling to turn it into two operator equations based on the Fourier method. To solve the inverse problem, a fractional Landweber regularization method is proposed. Furthermore, we present convergence estimates between the exact solution and the regularized solution by using the a-priori and the a-posteriori parameter choice rules. In order to verify the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method, several numerical examples are constructed.