Science and Education Publishing Turkish Journal of Analysis and Number Theory 2 3 2014 06 19 Numerical Computation Based on the Method of Fundamental Solutions for a Cauchy Problem of Heat Equation 70 74 EN Ruihua Cao School of Mathematics and Computer science, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, China TJANT2014233 10.12691/tjant-2-3-3 2014 06 03 2014 06 19 2014 06 19 In this note, a boundary integral equation method coupled with the method of fundamental solutions for solving an inverse heat conduction problem is considered. The Tikhonov regularization method is employed for solving this system of equations. Determination of regularization parameter is based on GCV criterion. To illustrate our main results, some numerical examples are given.