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In this paper a numerical approach combining the least squares method and the genetic algorithm (sequential and multi-core parallelization approach) is proposed for the determination of temperature in an inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP). Some numerical experiments confirm the utility of this algorithm as the results are in good agreement with the exact data. Results show that an excellent estimation can be obtained by implementation sequential genetic algorithm within a CPU with clock speed 2.7 GHz, and parallel genetic algorithm within a 16-core CPU with clock speed 2.7 GHz for each core.

This study is intended to provide a numerical algorithm for solving a one-dimensional inverse heat conduction problem. The given heat conduction equation, the boundary conditions, and the initial condition are presented in a dimensionless form. The numerical approach is developed based on the use of the solution to the auxiliary problem as a basis function. To regularize the resultant ill-conditioned linear system of equations, we apply the Tikhonov regularization method to obtain the stable numerical approximation to the solution.