Numerical solutions of some parabolic inverse problems

In this article we transform a large class of parabolic inverse problems into a nonclassical parabolic equation whose coefficients consist of trace type functionals of the solution and its derivatives subject to some initial and boundary conditions. For this nonclassical problem, we introduce a variational form by defining a new function. Both continuous and discrete Galerkin procedures are illustrated in this paper. The error estimates are also derived.