%0 Journal Article %T Determination of conductivity in a heat equation %A Ping Wang %A Kewang Zheng %J International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences %D 2000 %I Hindawi Publishing Corporation %R 10.1155/s0161171200004713 %X We consider the problem of determining the conductivity in a heatequation from overspecified non-smooth data. It is an ill-posedinverse problem. We apply a regularization approach to define andconstruct a stable approximate solution. We also conduct numericalsimulation to demonstrate the accuracy of our approximation. %U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijmms/2000/914236/abs/