Abstract

In this paper, we will first study the existence and uniqueness of the solution of a one-dimensional inverse problem for an inhomogeneous linear wave equation with initial and boundary conditions via an auxiliary problem. Then a stable numerical method consisting of zeroth-, first-, and second-order Tikhonov regularization to the matrix form of Duhamel’s principle for solving this inverse problem is presented. The stability and accuracy of the scheme presented is evaluated by comparison with the Singular Value Decomposition method. Some numerical experiments confirm the utility of this algorithm as the results are in good agreement with the exact data.