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Finding the history of a groundwater contaminant plume from final measurements is an ill-posed problem and, consequently, its solution is extremely sensitive to errors in the input data. In this paper, we study this problem mathematically. So, firstly, existence and uniqueness theorems of a quasi-solution in an appropriate class of admissible initial data are given. Secondly, in order to overcome the ill-posedness of the problem and also approximate the quasi-solution, two approaches (computational and iterative algorithms) are provided. In the computational algorithm, the finite element method and TSVD regularization are applied. This method is tested by two numerical examples. The results reveal the efficiency and applicability of the proposed method. Also, in order to construct the iterative methods, an explicit formula for the gradient of the cost functional J is given. This result helps us to construct two iterative methods, i.e., the conjugate gradient algorithm and Landweber iteration algorithm. We prove the Lipschitz continuity of the gradient of the cost functional, monotonicity and convergence of the iterative methods. At the end of the paper, a numerical example is given to show the validation of the iterative algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, using Sinc-Galerkin method and TSVD regularization, an approximation of the quasi-solution to an inverse source problem is obtained. To do so, the solution of direct problem is obtained by the Sinc-Galerkin method, and this solution is applied in a least squares cost functional. Then, to obtain an approximation of the quasi-solution, we minimize the cost functional by TSVD regularization. Error analysis and convergence of the proposed method are investigated. In addition, at the end, four numerical examples are given in details to show the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on deriving analytical solutions for three-dimensional projectile motion and investigating numerical approaches for handling these solutions. We derive the equations of projectile motion using both classical and fractional calculus, considering scenarios with and without air resistance. We analyze the characteristics of the projectile’s trajectory in both classical and fractional scenarios, providing a comparative study between them. Additionally, we propose an extrapolation method tailored to the nature of the motion equations to estimate projectile trajectories. The accuracy of our proposed method is assessed through the absolute error between exact and numerical solutions, with numerical examples provided to validate the theoretical analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]