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In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems subject to a semilinear elliptic partial differential equations. The cost functional contains a term that measures the size of the support of the control, which is the so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Eduardo Casas , Daniel Wachsmuth

A numerical study of an optimal control formulation for a shape optimization problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality is performed. The shape optimization problem is reformulated as a boundary control problem in a fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-22 Raino A. E. Mäkinen

We study the minimisation of a cost functional which measures the misfit on the boundary of a domain between a component of the solution to a certain parametric elliptic PDE system and a prediction of the values of this solution. We pose…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Nikos Katzourakis

We propose a local regularization of elliptic optimal control problems which involves the nonconvex $L^q$ fractional penalizations in the cost function. The proposed \emph{Huber type} regularization allows us to formulate the PDE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Pedro Merino

We consider shape optimization problems for general integral functionals of the calculus of variations, defined on a domain $\Omega$ that varies over all subdomains of a given bounded domain $D$ of ${\bf R}^d$. We show in a rather…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Harish Shrivastava

We present a new solver for coupled nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The solver is based on pseudo-spectral collocation with domain decomposition and can handle one- to three-dimensional problems. It has three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Harald P. Pfeiffer , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky

For shape optimization problems, governed by elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary condition and random coefficients, we utilize a penalization technique to get the approximate problem. We consider that uncertainties exists in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xiaowei Pang

We introduce a novel mesh-free and direct method for computing the shape derivative in PDE-constrained shape optimization problems. Our approach is based on a probabilistic representation of the shape derivative and is applicable for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Luka Schlegel , Volker Schulz , Frank T. Seifried , Maximilian Würschmidt

This paper is concerned with a shape optimization problem governed by a non-smooth PDE, i.e., the nonlinearity in the state equation is not necessarily differentiable. We follow the functional variational approach of [40] where the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Livia Betz

In this paper we consider a mass optimization problem in the case of scalar state function, where instead of imposing a constraint on the total mass of the competitors, we penalize the classical compliance by a convex functional defined on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Maria Stella Gelli , Danka Lučić

In this paper, error estimates are presented for a certain class of optimal control problems with elliptic PDE-constraints. It is assumed that in the cost functional the state is measured in terms of the energy norm generated by the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-31 Olli Mali

We define and discuss the properties of a class of cost functions on the sphere which we term defective cost functions. We then discuss how to extend these definitions and some properties to cost functions defined on Euclidean space and on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Axel G. R. Turnquist

In this paper we analyze the relaxed form of a shape optimization problem with state equation $\{{array}{ll} -div \big(a(x)Du\big)=f\qquad\hbox{in}D \hbox{boundary conditions on}\partial D. {array}.$ The new fact is that the term $f$ is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-02-16 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Faustino Maestre

This paper is devoted to the theoretical and numerical study of an optimal design problem in high-temperature superconductivity (HTS). The shape optimization problem is to find an optimal superconductor shape which minimizes a certain cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Antoine Laurain , Malte Winckler , Irwin Yousept

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

We consider shape optimization problems with internal inclusion constraints, of the form $$\min\big\{J(\Omega)\ :\ \Dr\subset\Omega\subset\R^d,\ |\Omega|=m\big\},$$ where the set $\Dr$ is fixed, possibly unbounded, and $J$ depends on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-13 Dorin Bucur , Giuseppe Buttazzo , Bozhidar Velichkov

In this paper we study we study a Dirichlet optimal control prob- lem associated with a linear elliptic equation the coefficients of which we take as controls in the class of integrable functions. The characteristic feature of this control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Thierry Horsin , Peter Kogut , Olivier Wilk

We investigate a fixed domain approach in shape optimization, using a regularization of the Heaviside function both in the cost functional and in the state system. We consider the compliance minimization problem in linear elasticity, a well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba

We present a new parallel computational framework for the efficient solution of a class of $L^2$/$L^1$-regularized optimal control problems governed by semi-linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The main difficulty in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Gabriele Ciaramella , Michael Kartmann , Georg Müller

We consider general shape optimization problems governed by Dirichlet boundary value problems. The proposed approach may be extended to other boundary conditions as well. It is based on a recent representation result for implicitly defined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba