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Optimal control of a thermistor problem with vanishing conductivity

Optimization and Control 2019-02-06 v1

Abstract

An optimal control of a steady state thermistor problem is considered, where the convective boundary coefficient is taken as the control variable. A distinctive feature of this paper is that the problem is considered in arbitrary dimensions, and the electrical conductivity is allowed to vanish above a threshold temperature value. The existence of a steady state is proved, an objective functional is introduced, the existence of the optimal control is proved, and the optimality system is derived.

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@article{arxiv.1902.01505,
  title  = {Optimal control of a thermistor problem with vanishing conductivity},
  author = {Volodymyr Hrynkiv and Sergiy Koshkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.01505},
  year   = {2019}
}

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23 pages, no figures

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