Theoretical stability and numerical reconstruction for an inverse source problem for hyperbolic equations

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the inverse problem on determining the spatial component of the source term in a hyperbolic equation with time-dependent principal part. Based on a newly established Carleman estimate for general hyperbolic operators, we prove a local stability result of Hölder type in both cases of partial boundary and interior observation data. Numerically, we adopt the classical Tikhonov regularization to transform the inverse problem into an output least-squares minimization, which can be solved by the iterative thresholding algorithm. The proposed algorithm is computationally easy and efficient: the minimizer at each step has explicit solution. Abundant amounts of numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the algorithm.

24 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables

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