Author(s)

Hongwu Zhang, Xiaoju Zhang

School of Mathematics and Information Science, Beifang University of Nationalities, Yinchuan, China.

A Cauchy problem for the semi-linear elliptic equation is investigated. We use a filtering function method to define a regularization solution for this ill-posed problem. The existence, uniqueness and stability of the regularization solution are proven; a convergence estimate of Hölder type for the regularization method is obtained under the a-priori bound assumption for the exact solution. An iterative scheme is proposed to calculate the regularization solution; some numerical results show that this method works well.

Ill-Posed Problem, Cauchy Problem, Semi-Linear Elliptic Equation, Filtering Function Method, Convergence Estimate

Zhang, H. and Zhang, X. (2015) Filtering Function Method for the Cauchy Problem of a Semi-Linear Elliptic Equation. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 3, 1599-1609. doi: 10.4236/jamp.2015.312184.