Acta mathematica scientia,Series A ›› 2011, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (4): 857-865.

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Data Assimilation: a Nonstandard Approach to a Heat Conduction Model

 YU Hang   

  1. School of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433
  • Received:2009-08-04 Revised:2010-09-10 Online:2011-08-25 Published:2011-08-25
  • Supported by:

    国家自然科学基金(10671040, 10831007)资助

Abstract:

We consider an one dimensional heat conduction model ∂tyy=0, in  (0, T)×Ω, which we would like to "predict" on a time interval (T0, T0) but for which the initial value of the state variable is unknown. However, "measures"of the solutions are known only at one point of Ω on a time interval (0, T0) where 0<T0<T. The classical approach in data assimilation is to look for the initial value at time 0 and this is known to be an ill-posed problem for heat equations. In this paper, by the property of null controllability of heat equations we give a result of approximate reconstruction of the value at T0. The approximation needs a sharp estimation of the cost of the null controllability of the heat equation.

Key words: Data assimilation, Heat equation, Null controllability, Stability

CLC Number: 

  • 93B05
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