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This note is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by the relativistic Maxwell-Newton-Lorentz equations, which describes the motion of charges particles in electro-magnetic fields and consists of a hyperbolic PDE system coupled…

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We study an optimal boundary control problem for the two-dimensional stationary micropolar fluids system with variable density. We control the system by considering boundary controls, for the velocity vector and angular velocity of rotation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Exequiel Mallea-Zepeda , Elva Ortega-Torres , Élder J. Villamizar-Roa

We consider optimal control problems of elliptic PDEs on hypersurfaces in 2- or 3-dimensional Euclidean space. The leading part of the PDE is given by the Laplace-Beltrami operator, which is discretized by finite elements on a polyhedral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-10 Michael Hinze , Morten Vierling

We investigate $C^1$ finite element methods for one dimensional elliptic distributed optimal control problems with pointwise constraints on the derivative of the state formulated as fourth order variational inequalities for the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Susanne C. Brenner , Li-Yeng Sung , Winnifried Wollner

This paper is concerned with an elliptic optimal control problem with total variation (TV) restriction on the control in the constraints. We introduce a regularized optimal control problem by applying a quadratic regularization of the dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Christian Meyer , Annika Schiemann

A general backward stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem is studied, in which both the state equation and the cost functional contain the nonhomogeneous terms. The main feature of the problem is that the weighting matrices in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Jingrui Sun , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong

Optimal control of the singular nonlinear parabolic PDE which is a distributional formulation of multidimensional and multiphase Stefan-type free boundary problem is analyzed. Approximating sequence of finite-dimensional optimal control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Ugur G. Abdulla , Evan Cosgrove

In this article we show the crucial role of elliptic regularity theory for the development of efficient numerical methods for the solution of some variational problems. Here we focus to a class of elliptic multiobjective optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-27 A. Dreves , J. Gwinner , N. Ovcharova

We consider the optimal control of singular nonlinear partial differential equation which is the distributional formulation of the multiphase Stefan type free boundary problem for the general second order parabolic equation. Boundary heat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Ugur G. Abdulla , Evan Cosgrove

We consider optimal control problems where the state equation is an elliptic PDE of a Schr\"odinger type, governed by the Laplace operator $-\Delta$ with the addition of a potential V, and the control is the potential V itself, that may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Faustino Maestre , Bozhidar Velichkov

The DPG method with optimal test functions for solving linear quadratic optimal control problems with control constraints is studied. We prove existence of a unique optimal solution of the nonlinear discrete problem and characterize it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Thomas Führer , Francisco Fuica

We consider the simplest optimal control problem with one nonregular mixed inequality constraint, i.e. when its gradient in the control can vanish on the zero surface. Using the Dubovitskii--Milyutin theorem on the approximate separation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-04 A. V. Dmitruk , N. P. Osmolovskii

In this article, we consider a stochastic linear quadratic control problem with partial observation. A near optimal control in the weak formulation is characterized. The main features of this paper are the presence of the control in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jingrui Sun , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong , Wen Xu

We discuss several optimization procedures to solve finite element approximations of linear-quadratic Dirichlet optimal control problems governed by an elliptic partial differential equation posed on a 2D or 3D Lipschitz domain. The control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Mariano Mateos

A tracking type optimal control problem for a nonlinear and nonlocal kinetic Fokker-Planck equation which arises as the mean field limit of an interacting particle systems that is subject to distance dependent random fluctuations is…

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In this paper, we deal with an elliptic problem with the Dirichlet boundary condition. We operate in Sobolev spaces and the main analytic tool we use is the Lax-Milgram lemma. First, we present the variational approach of the problem which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Eriselda Goga , Besiana Hamzallari

In this article we study ergodic problems in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$ for weakly coupled systems of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations with coercive right-hand sides. The Hamiltonians are assumed to have a fairly general structure and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Ari Arapostathis , Anup Biswas , Prasun Roychowdhury

In this work, we consider optimal control problems for mechanical systems on vector spaces with fixed initial and free final state and a quadratic Lagrange term. Specifically, the dynamics is described by a second order ODE containing an…

This paper investigates the stochastic linear-quadratic control problems with affine constraints, in which both equality and inequality constraints are involved. With the help of the Pontryagin maximum principle and Lagrangian duality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Zhun Gou , Nan-jing Huang , Xian-jun Long , Jian-hao Kang

In this paper we present explicit bounds for optimal control in a Lagrange problem without end-point constraints. The approach we use is due to Gamkrelidze and is based on the equivalence of the Lagrange problem and a time-optimal problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Miguel Oliveira , Georgi Smirnov