An iterative method based on Nesterov acceleration for identifying space-dependent source term in a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate an inverse problem of identifying a space-dependent source in a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation by using the final time data. Since the problem is ill-posed, we propose an iterative method based on the Nesterov acceleration strategy to deal with it. Two kinds of convergence rates for the regularized solution are given under both the a priori and a posteriori regularization parameter choice rules. Compared with the classical regularization methods, our method is easy to implement with a fewer number of iterations and can always yield the order optimal error estimates provided the iteration parameter is chosen large enough. Some numerical examples including one-dimensional and two-dimensional cases are presented to illustrate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed method.