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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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We study an optimization problem with SPDE constraints, which has the peculiarity that the control parameter $s$ is the $s$-th power of the diffusion operator in the state equation. Well-posedness of the state equation and differentiability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Carina Geldhauser , Enrico Valdinoci

We analyze a reaction coefficient identification problem for the spectral fractional powers of a symmetric, coercive, linear, elliptic, second-order operator in a bounded domain $\Omega$. We realize fractional diffusion as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Enrique Otarola , Tran Nhan Tam Quyen

We study the numerical solution of nonlinear partially observed optimal stopping problems. The system state is taken to be a multi-dimensional diffusion and drives the drift of the observation process, which is another multi-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-01-20 Mike Ludkovski

We consider a pointwise tracking optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic partial differential equation. We derive the existence of optimal solutions and analyze first and, necessary and sufficient, second order optimality…

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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…

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This paper is devoted to an optimal control problem of fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations driven by sub-diffusion, whose solutions are not Markov processes. The stochastic maximum principle is obtained, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Chenhui Hao , Jingtao Shi , Shuaiqi Zhang

In this paper, we study optimal control problems of semilinear elliptic and parabolic equations. A tracking cost functional, quadratic in the control and state variables, is considered. No control constraints are imposed. We prove that the…

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We present a formulation of an optimal control problem for a two-dimensional diffusion process governed by a Fokker-Planck equation to achieve a nonequilibrium steady state with a desired circulation while accelerating convergence toward…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Norihisa Namura , Hiroya Nakao

We study a discretization technique for the parabolic fractional obstacle problem in bounded domains. The fractional Laplacian is realized as the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for a nonuniformly elliptic equation posed on a semi-infinite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

We consider a bilinear optimal control for an evolution equation involving the fractional Laplace operator of order $0<s<1$. We first give some existence and uniqueness results for the considered evolution equation. Next, we establish some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Gisèle Mophou , Cyrille Kenne , Mahamadi Warma

The problem of identifying the diffusion parameter appearing in a nonlocal steady diffusion equation is considered. The identification problem is formulated as an optimal control problem having a matching functional as the objective of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Marta D'Elia , Max Gunzburger

In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework for nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems with optimal stopping by establishing a density-based deterministic representation of the underlying diffusion. For state-independent…

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This paper explores the convergence behavior of two waveform relaxation algorithms, namely the Dirichlet-Neumann and Neumann-Neumann Waveform Relaxation algorithms, for an optimal control problem with a sub-diffusion partial differential…

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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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-08 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Dongwoo Sheen , Zhi Zhou

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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This article is concerned with the nonconforming finite element method for distributed elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise constraints on the control and gradient of the state variable. We reduce the minimization problem into a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-13 Kamana Porwal , Pratibha Shakya

We investigate $C^1$ finite element methods for one dimensional elliptic distributed optimal control problems with pointwise constraints on the derivative of the state formulated as fourth order variational inequalities for the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Susanne C. Brenner , Li-Yeng Sung , Winnifried Wollner

This work is motivated by the need to study the impact of data uncertainties and material imperfections on the solution to optimal control problems constrained by partial differential equations. We consider a pathwise optimal control…

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