On simultaneous determination of thermal conductivity and volume heat capacity of substance

The study of nonlinear problems associated with heat transfer in substance is important for practice. Earlier, the authors proposed an efficient algorithm for determining the thermal conductivity from experimental observations of the dynamics of the temperature field in an object. In this work, we explore the possibility of extending the algorithm to the numerical solution of the problem of simultaneous identification of the temperature-dependent volume heat capacity and the thermal conductivity of the substance under study. The consideration is based on the Dirichlet boundary value problem for the one-dimensional nonstationary heat equation. The coefficient inverse problem in question is reduced to a variational problem, which is solved by applying gradient methods based on the fast automatic differentiation technique. The uniqueness of the solution to the inverse problem is analyzed.