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We carry on our study of the connection between two shape optimization problems with spectral cost. On the one hand, we consider the optimal design problem for the survival threshold of a population living in a heterogenous habitat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-18 Dario Mazzoleni , Benedetta Pellacci , Gianmaria Verzini

We consider a linear-quadratic optimization problem with pointwise bounds on the state for which the constraint is given by the Laplace-Beltrami equation (to have uniqueness we add an lower order term) on a two-dimensional surface . By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-10 Ahmad Ahmad Ali , Michael Hinze , Heiko Kröner

We consider a bilinear optimal control problem with pointwise tracking for a semilinear elliptic PDE in two and three dimensions. The control variable enters the PDE as a (reaction) coefficient and the cost functional contains point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Enrique Otarola , Daniel Quero , Matias Sasso

Solving inverse and optimization problems over solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex spatial domains is a long-standing challenge. Here we introduce a method that parameterizes the solution using spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 James V. Roggeveen , Michael P. Brenner

In this paper, a class of semilinear fractional elliptic equations associated to the spectral fractional Dirichlet Laplace operator is considered. We establish the existence of optimal solutions as well as a minimum principle of Pontryagin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Cyrille Kenne , Gisèle Mophou , Mahamadi Warma

In this paper we analyze a shape optimization problem, with Stokes equations as the state problem, defined on a domain with a part of the boundary that is described as the graph of the control function. The state problem formulation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-17 Ivan Fumagalli , Nicola Parolini , Marco Verani

In this paper we analyze the shape derivative of a cost functional appearing in image restoration.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Carla Baroncini , Julian Fernandez Bonder

An unsteady problem is considered for a space-fractional equation in a bounded domain. A first-order evolutionary equation involves a fractional power of an elliptic operator of second order. Finite element approximation in space is…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Petr N. Vabishchevich

We study three types of fourth-order Steklov eigenvalue problems. For the first two of them, we derive the asymptotic expansion of their spectra on Euclidean annular domains $\mathbb{B}^n_1\setminus \overline{\mathbb{B}^n_\epsilon}$ as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Changwei Xiong , Jinglong Yang , Jinchao Yu

This article investigates the numerical approximation of shape optimization problems with PDE constraint on classes of convex domains. The convexity constraint provides a compactness property which implies well posedness of the problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Sören Bartels , Gerd Wachsmuth

We consider a spectral optimal design problem involving the Neumann traces of the Dirichlet-Laplacian eigenfunctions on a smooth bounded open subset $\Omega$ of $\R^n$. The cost functional measures the amount of energy that Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Yannick Privat , Emmanuel Trélat , Enrique Zuazua

Shape optimization methods have been proven useful for identifying interfaces in models governed by partial differential equations. Here we consider a class of shape optimization problems constrained by nonlocal equations which involve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Volker Schulz , Matthias Schuster , Christian Vollmann

We introduce a new technique to optimize a linear cost function subject to a one-dimensional affine homogeneous quadratic integral inequality, i.e., the requirement that a homogeneous quadratic integral functional, affine in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Giovanni Fantuzzi , Andrew Wynn , Paul Goulart , Antonis Papachristodoulou

We investigate optimal control problems governed by the elliptic partial differential equation $-\Delta u=f$ subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions on a given domain $\Omega$. The control variable in this setting is the right-hand side…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Juan Casado-Díaz , Faustino Maestre

This paper is concerned with the derivation of necessary conditions for the optimal shape of a design problem governed by a non-smooth PDE. The main particularity thereof is the lack of differentiability of the nonlinearity in the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Livia Betz

In this paper, we perform a rigourous version of shape and topological derivatives for optimizations problems under constraint Helmoltz problems. A shape and topological optimization problem is formulated by introducing cost functional. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Mame Gor Ngom , Ibrahima Faye , Diaraf Seck

We consider a one dimensional elliptic distributed optimal control problem with pointwise constraints on the derivative of the state. By exploiting the variational inequality satisfied by the derivative of the optimal state, we obtain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Susanne C. Brenner , Li-yeng Sung , Winnifried Wollner

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

The objective of this study is to address the difficulty of simplifying the geometric model in which a differential problem is formulated, also called defeaturing, while simultaneously ensuring that the accuracy of the solution is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Jochen Hinz , Ondine Chanon , Alessandra Arrigoni , Annalisa Buffa

In this article we consider shape optimization problems as optimal control problems via the method of mappings. Instead of optimizing over a set of admissible shapes a reference domain is introduced and it is optimized over a set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Johannes Haubner , Martin Siebenborn , Michael Ulbrich