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The purpose of this work is the study of solution techniques for problems involving fractional powers of symmetric coercive elliptic operators in a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions. These operators can be realized as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

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

In this paper we consider the optimal control of semilinear fractional PDEs with both spectral and integral fractional diffusion operators of order $2s$ with $s \in (0,1)$. We first prove the boundedness of solutions to both semilinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Harbir Antil , Mahamadi Warma

We study solution techniques for parabolic equations with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative, the latter being discretized and analyzed in a general Hilbert space setting. The spatial fractional diffusion is realized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

We consider the problem of identifying a sparse initial source condition to achieve a given state distribution of a diffusion-advection partial differential equation after a given final time. The initial condition is assumed to be a finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Umberto Biccari , Yongcun Song , Xiaoming Yuan , Enrique Zuazua

This paper investigates the optimal control problem for a class of parabolic equations where the diffusion coefficient is influenced by a control function acting nonlocally. Specifically, we consider the optimization of a cost functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Stefana-Lucia Anita , Luca Di Persio

This paper is devoted to the numerical analysis of a control constrained distributed optimal control problem subject to a time fractional diffusion equation with non-smooth initial data. The solutions of state and co-state are decomposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Tao Wang , Binjie Li , Xiaoping Xie

A continuous optimal control problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality was considered in Boukrouche-Tarzia, Comput. Optim. Appl., 53 (2012), 375-392 where the control variable is the internal energy $g$. It was proved the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Mariela Olguín , Domingo A. Tarzia

In this paper, we consider a diffusion equation with fractional-time derivative with nonsingular Mittag-Leffler kernel in Hilbert spaces. Existence and uniqueness of solution are proved by means of a spectral argument. The existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-27 J. D. Djida , G. M. Mophou , I. Area

We tackle a nonlinear optimal control problem for a stochastic differential equation in Euclidean space and its state-linear counterpart for the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation in the space of probabilities. Our approach is founded on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Roman Chertovskih , Nikolay Pogodaev , Maxim Staritsyn , A. Pedro Aguiar

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Jerome Droniou , Neela Nataraj , Devika Shylaja

We consider an identification problem, where the state $u$ is governed by a fractional elliptic equation and the unknown variable corresponds to the order $s \in (0,1)$ of the underlying operator. We study the existence of an optimal pair…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Harbir Antil , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

We study the numerical approximation of linear-quadratic optimal control problems subject to the fractional Laplace equation with its spectral definition. We compute an approximation of the state equation using a discretization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Stefan Dohr , Christian Kahle , Sergejs Rogovs , Piotr Swierczynski

This paper considers the problem of designing time-dependent, real-time control policies for controllable nonlinear diffusion processes, with the goal of obtaining maximally-informative observations about parameters of interest. More…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-10-16 Giles Hooker , Kevin K. Lin , Bruce Rogers

In this paper, the authors study the distributed optimal control of a system of three evolutionary equations involving fractional powers of three selfadjoint, monotone, unbounded linear operators having compact resolvents. The system is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

The article discusses the gradient discretisation method (GDM) for distributed optimal control problems governed by diffusion equation with pure Neumann boundary condition. Using the GDM framework enables to develop an analysis that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Jerome Droniou , Neela Nataraj , Devika Shylaja

A new class of cost functionals for optimal control of quantum systems which produces controls which are sparse in frequency and smooth in time is proposed. This is achieved by penalizing a suitable time-frequency representation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Gero Friesecke , Felix Henneke , Karl Kunisch

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

In this article, we consider a stochastic linear quadratic control problem with partial observation. A near optimal control in the weak formulation is characterized. The main features of this paper are the presence of the control in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jingrui Sun , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong , Wen Xu

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