RT Journal Article T1 On the identification of a thermal expansion coefficient A1 Infante Del Río, Juan Antonio A1 Molina Rodríguez, M. A1 Ramos Del Olmo, Ángel Manuel AB In this paper, we identify a time-dependent thermal expansion function when some information about the temperature is known. This inverse problem is motivated by models that arise in food engineering. In particular, the model studied here describes high-pressure processes and it is governed by the heat equation with Robin boundary conditions in a cylindrical spatial domain. We study the inverse problem, proving a uniqueness result and obtaining a numerical scheme to compute the thermal expansion function. Several numerical examples are shown. PB Taylor & Francis SN 1741-5977 YR 2015 FD 2015 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34621 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34621 LA eng NO Spanish ‘Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness’ NO Comunidad de Madrid NO European Social Fund NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid NO Banco de Santander DS Docta Complutense RD 10 may 2025