METHOD OF FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTION FOR AN INVERSE HEAT CONDUCTION PROBLEM WITH VARIABLE COEFFICIENTS

In this paper, we consider an inverse heat conduction problem with variable coefficient a(t). In many practical situations such as an on-line testing, we cannot know the initial condition for example because we have to estimate the problem for the heat process which was already started. Based on the method of fundamental solutions, we give a numerical scheme for solving the reconstruction problem. Since the governing equation contains variable coefficients, modified method of fundamental solutions was used to solve this kind of ill-posed problems. Some numerical examples are given for verifying the efficiency and accuracy of the presented method.