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In this article, we are concerned with the analysis on the numerical reconstruction of the spatial component in the source term of a time-fractional diffusion equation. This ill-posed problem is solved through a stabilized nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Daijun Jiang , Yikan Liu , Dongling Wang

We consider an optimal control problem on a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2,$ governed by a parabolic convection--diffusion--reaction equation with pointwise control constraints. We follow the optimize--then--discretize approach,…

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In this paper we consider a parabolic optimal control problem with a Dirac type control with moving point source in two space dimensions. We discretize the problem with piecewise constant functions in time and continuous piecewise linear…

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We derive a fundamental solution $\mathscr{E}$ to a space-fractional diffusion problem on the half-line. The equation involves the Caputo derivative. We establish properties of $\mathscr{E}$ as well as formulas for solutions to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Tokinaga Namba , Piotr Rybka , Shoichi Sato

We present a method for the numerical approximation of distributed optimal control problems constrained by parabolic partial differential equations. We complement the first-order optimality condition by a recently developed space-time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Thomas Führer , Michael Karkulik

Finite element approximations of Dirichlet boundary control problems governed by parabolic PDEs on convex polygonal domains are studied in this paper. The existence of a unique solution to optimal control problems is guaranteed based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Wei Gong , Michael Hinze , Zhaojie Zhou

In this paper, we consider the finite element approximation to a parabolic Dirichlet boundary control problem and establish new a priori error estimates. In the temporal semi-discretization we apply the DG(0) method for the state and the…

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An initial-boundary value problem with a Caputo time derivative of fractional order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ is considered, solutions of which typically exhibit a singular behaviour at an initial time. For this problem, we give a simple and general…

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This work discusses the finite element discretization of an optimal control problem for the linear wave equation with time-dependent controls of bounded variation. The main focus lies on the convergence analysis of the discretization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Sebastian Engel , Philip Trautmann , Boris Vexler

The aim of this paper is to develop and analyze numerical schemes for approximately solving the backward problem of subdiffusion equation involving a fractional derivative in time with order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. After using quasi-boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Zhengqi Zhang , Zhi Zhou

A method is presented for the numerical solution of optimal boundary control problems governed by parabolic partial differential equations. The continuous space-time optimal control problem is transcribed into a sparse nonlinear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Alexander M. Davies , Sara Pollock , Miriam E. Dennis , Anil V. Rao

We propose and analyze an a posteriori error estimator for a PDE-constrained optimization problem involving a nondifferentiable cost functional, fractional diffusion, and control-constraints. We realize fractional diffusion as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Enrique Otarola

This work establishes a general stochastic maximum principle for partially observed optimal control of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations in a nonconvex control domain. The state evolves in a Hilbert space driven by a…

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We adopt the integral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and analyze an optimal control problem for a fractional semilinear elliptic partial differential equation (PDE); control constraints are also considered. We establish the…

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In this paper we study existence, regularity, and approximation of solution to a fractional semilinear elliptic equation of order $s \in (0,1)$. We identify minimal conditions on the nonlinear term and the source which leads to existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-27 Harbir Antil , Johannes Pfefferer , Mahamadi Warma

We consider an optimal control problem of diffusion equation with missing data governed by the fractional Laplacian with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on an arbitrary interaction domain disjoint from the domain of the state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-05 J-D. Djida , P. F. Soh , G. Mophou

We consider a numerical approximation of a linear quadratic control problem constrained by the stochastic heat equation with non-homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. This involves a combination of distributed and boundary control, as…

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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

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