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A new approach to solving two-point boundary value problems for a wave equation is developed. This new approach exploits the principle of stationary action to reformulate and solve such problems in the framework of optimal control. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Peter M. Dower , William M. McEneaney

For certain values of the wave speed parameter, evolution equations for the temperature of a region of fuel admit traveling wave solutions describing fire fronts. We consider such a system in the form of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-10-29 Olivia Chandrasekhar , Christopher K. R. T. Jones , Blake Barker , Rodman Linn

The smoothing distribution is the conditional distribution of the diffusion process in the space of trajectories given noisy observations made continuously in time. It is generally difficult to sample from this distribution. We use the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Oskar Eklund , Annika Lang , Moritz Schauer

A generalisation of reaction diffusion systems and their travelling solutions to cases when the productive part of the reaction happens only on a surface in space or on a line on plane but the degradation and the diffusion happen in bulk…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Anton S. Zadorin

A diffusion's induced transport is defined for a linear model of a Fokker-Plank equation under periodic boundary conditions in one-dimensional geometry. The flow is generated by a diffusion and a periodic deriving force induced by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-04 Gershon Wolansky

Dynamics of spiral waves in perturbed, e. g. slightly inhomogeneous or subject to a small periodic external force, two-dimensional autowave media can be described asymptotically in terms of Aristotelean dynamics, so that the velocities of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-12-21 I. V. Biktasheva , A. V. Holden , V. N. Biktashev

It is shown that optimum control of dynamical localization (quantum suppression of classical diffusion) in the context of ultracold atoms in periodically shaken optical lattices subjected to time-periodic forces having equidistant zeros…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 F. Revuelta , R. Chacón , F. Borondo

A consolidated mathematical formulation of the spherically symmetric mass-transfer problem is presented, with the quasi-stationary approximating equations derived from a perturbation point of view for the leading-order effect. For the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 James Q. Feng

In this paper, we discuss the transport phenomena of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random system which is composed of arrays of electrical dipoles, following the model presented earlier by Erdogan, et al. (J. Opt. Soc. Am. B…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Wang , Zhen Ye

We consider the determination of the optimal stationary singular stochastic control of a linear diffusion for a class of average cumulative cost minimization problems arising in various financial and economic applications of stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Luis H. R. Alvarez E.

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for controlling surface water waves and their interaction with floating bodies. We consider a floating target rigid body surrounded by a control region where we design three control strategies of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Sebastiano Cominelli , Carlo Sinigaglia , Davide Enrico Quadrelli , Francesco Braghin

We develop numerical methods for reaction-diffusion systems based on the equations of fluctuating hydrodynamics (FHD). While the FHD formulation is formally described by stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs), it becomes similar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-17 Changho Kim , Andy Nonaka , John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia , Aleksandar Donev

This article gives an overview of the developments in controlled diffusion processes, emphasizing key results regarding existence of optimal controls and their characterization via dynamic programming for a variety of cost criteria and…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vivek S. Borkar

We examine travelling wave solutions of the reaction-diffusion equation, $\partial_t u= R(u) + \partial_x \left[D(u) \partial_x u\right]$, with a Stefan-like condition at the edge of the moving front. With only a few assumptions on $R(u)$…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-05-07 Nabil T. Fadai

A unified geometric approach for the stability analysis of traveling pulse solutions for reaction-diffusion equations with skew-gradient structure has been established in a previous paper [9], but essentially no results have been found in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Qin Xing

A pinned-free beam in axial fluid flow, subjected to feedback-based actuation at the pinned end, is investigated. The actuation may be a moment or a prescribed angle and it is proportional to the state (curvature, slope, or displacement) of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-07 Sanders Aspelund , Ranjan Mukherjee , Aren Hellum

We study a class of two-sided optimal control problems of general linear diffusions under a so-called Poisson constraint: the controlling is only allowed at the arrival times of an independent Poisson signal processes. We give a weak and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Harto Saarinen

The time-frequency integrals and the two-dimensional stationary phase method are applied to study the electromagnetic waves radiated by moving modulated sources in dispersive media. We show that such unified approach leads to explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Gennadiy Burlak , Vladimir Rabinovich

We solve the problem concerning a time optimal return of a particle with a prescribed velocity to the origin by applying a magnitude-bounded force. The equations of controlled motion are derived and explicitly integrated, and the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-11-20 Aleksandr Koshelev

We follow up an earlier work (briefly reviewed below) to investigate the temporal stability of an exact travelling front solution, constructed in the form of an integral expression, for a one-dimensional discrete Nagumo-like model without…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Priyadarshi Majudar , Avijit Lahiri