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In this work, we consider the numerical solution of an initial boundary value problem for the distributed order time fractional diffusion equation. The model arises in the mathematical modeling of ultra-slow diffusion processes observed in…

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This article provides a brief review of recent developments on two nonlocal operators: fractional Laplacian and fractional time derivative. We start by accounting for several applications of these operators in imaging science, geophysics,…

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An unsteady problem is considered for a space-fractional diffusion equation in a bounded domain. A first-order evolutionary equation containing a fractional power of an elliptic operator of second order is studied for general boundary…

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In this paper, we consider an inverse space-dependent source problem for a time-fractional diffusion equation. To deal with the ill-posedness of the problem, we transform the problem into an optimal control problem with total variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Bin Fan

This work investigates the existence and uniqueness of the Nash equilibrium (solutions to competitive problems in which individual controls aim at separate desired states) for a bi-objective optimal control problem governed by a fractional…

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The purpose of this work is to study an optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic partial differential equation with a linear combination of Dirac measures as a forcing term; the control variable corresponds to the amplitude of such…

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In this paper, optimal control problems governed by diffusion equations with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions are investigated in the framework of the gradient discretisation method. Gradient schemes are defined for the optimality…

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In this article, we consider a partial differential equation with Caputo time-derivative: $\partial_t^\alpha u + Au = F$ where $0< \alpha < 1$ and $u$ satisfies the zero Dirichlet boundary condition. For a non-symmetric elliptic operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Giuseppe Floridia , Zhiyuan Li , Masahiro Yamamoto

We present a general framework for the rigorous numerical analysis of time-fractional nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations, with a fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time. The framework relies on three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Bangti Jin , Buyang Li , Zhi Zhou

A reaction-diffusion problem with a Caputo time derivative is considered. An integral discretization scheme on a graded mesh along with a decomposition of the exact solution is proposed. The truncation error estimate of the discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Zhongdi Cen , Jian Huang , Anbo Le , Aimin Xu

The solution of a Caputo time fractional diffusion equation of order $0<\alpha<1$ is expressed in terms of the solution of a corresponding integer order diffusion equation. We demonstrate a linear time mapping between these solutions that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-28 Peter W. Stokes , Bronson Philippa , Wayne Read , Ronald D. White

This paper focuses on the discrete-time backward stochastic linear quadratic (BSLQ) optimal control problem with nonhomogeneous system terms and cost function cross terms. The terminal constraint of such systems distinguishes it from…

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This paper analyzes a discretization of a stochastic parabolic optimal control problem, where the diffusion term contains the control variable. With rough data, the convergence of the discretization is derived. In addition, a Monte-Carlo…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Binjie Li , Qin Zhou , Xiaoping Xie

This paper presents an efficient numerical method for solving fractional optimal control problems using an operational matrix for a fractional wavelet. Using well-known formulae such as Caputo and Riemann-Liouville operators to determine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-11 S. Saha Ray , Akanksha Singh

We consider a control constrained parabolic optimal control problem and use variational discretization for its time semi-discretization. The state equation is treated with a Petrov-Galerkin scheme using a piecewise constant Ansatz for the…

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In this paper we introduce new characterizations of spectral fractional Laplacian to incorporate nonhomogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. The classical cases with homogeneous boundary conditions arise as a special case. We…

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An optimal control problem related to the probability of transition between stable states for a thermally driven Ginzburg-Landau equation is considered. The value function for the optimal control problem with a spatial discretization is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-09-11 Mattias Sandberg

We investigate the application of a posteriori error estimates to a fractional optimal control problem with pointwise control constraints. Specifically, we address a problem in which the state equation is formulated as an integral form of…

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In this paper we discuss the optimal control of a quasilinear parabolic state equation. Its form is leaned on the kind of problems arising for example when controlling the anisotropic Allen-Cahn equation as a model for crystal growth.…

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