Regularized Solution of the Cauchy Problem for the Biharmonic Equation

In this paper, the Cauchy problem associated with the biharmonic equation is investigated. We prove that in principle, the problem is severely ill-posed in the sense of Hadamard. Therefore, we propose a quasi-boundary value-type regularization method for stabilizing the ill-posed problem. Very sharp convergence estimates are established based on some a priori information on the exact solution. Finally, several numerical examples with random data are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.