Abstract
In this article, we study an inverse problem (IP) for a fourth-order hyperbolic equation with nonlocal boundary conditions. This IP is reduced to the not self-adjoint boundary value problem (BVP) with corresponding boundary condition. Then, we use the separation of variables method, to reduce the not self-adjoint BVP to an integral equation. The existence and uniqueness of the integral equation are established by the contraction mappings principle and it is concluded that this solution is unique for a not-adjoint BVP. The existence and uniqueness of a nonlocal BVP with integral condition is proved. In addition, the fourth-order hyperbolic PDE is discretized using a collocation technique based on the quintic B-spline (QnB-spline) functions and reformed by the Tikhonov regularization function. The noise and analytical data are considered. The numerical outcome for a standard numerical example is discussed. Furthermore, the stability of the discretized system is also analyzed. The rate of convergence (ROC) of the method is also obtained.