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In this contribution tracking control designs using output feedback are presented for a two-phase Stefan problem arising in the modeling of the Vertical Gradient Freeze process. The two-phase Stefan problem, consisting of two coupled free…
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The present article is dedicated to the forward and backward solution of a transient one-phase Stefan problem. In the forward problem, we compute the evolution of the initial domain for a Stefan problem where the melting temperature varies…
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We consider Inverse Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) problem on recovering electrical conductivity and potential in the body based on the measurement of the boundary voltages on the $m$ electrodes for a given electrode current. The…
This paper is concerned with the optimal control problem governed by a linear parabolic equation and subjected to box constraints on control variables. This type of problem has important applications in heating and cooling systems. By…
An optimal control of a steady state thermistor problem is considered, where the convective boundary coefficient is taken as the control variable. A distinctive feature of this paper is that the problem is considered in arbitrary…
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The one-dimensional (1D) Stefan problem is a prototypical heat and mass transfer problem that analyzes the temperature distribution in a material undergoing phase change. In addition, it describes the evolution of the phase change front…
Stochastic maximum principle of nonlinear controlled forward-backward systems, where the set of strict (classical) controls need not be convex and the diffusion coefficient depends explicitly on the variable control, is an open problem…
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