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In this work, we study an optimal boundary control problem for a Cahn - Hilliard -Navier-Stokes (CHNS) system in a two dimensional bounded domain. The CHNS system consists of a Navier-Stokes equation governing the fluid velocity field…

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In this paper, we consider the Stokes problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions and the constant kinematic viscosity $\nu$ in an axis-aligned domain $\Omega$. We decouple the velocity $\bm u$ and pressure $p$ by deriving a novel biharmonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Qiwei Feng , Bin Han , Michael Neilan

There are numerous ways to control objects in the Stokes regime, with microscale examples ranging from the use of optical tweezers to the application of external magnetic fields. In contrast, there are relatively few explorations of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-19 Benjamin J. Walker , Kenta Ishimoto , Eamonn A. Gaffney , Clément Moreau

Recent studies have explored finite-time dissipation-minimizing protocols for stochastic thermodynamic systems driven arbitrarily far from equilibrium, when granted full external control to drive the system. However, in both simulation and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-27 Adrianne Zhong , Michael R. DeWeese

In this paper, we study the interaction between two closely spaced rigid inclusions suspended in a Stokes flow. It is well known that the stress significantly amplifies in the narrow region between the inclusions as the distance between…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Hongjie Dong , Haigang Li , Huaijun Teng , Peihao Zhang

This article investigates the exact controllability of three-dimensional stochastic Maxwell equations, a coupled system comprising two stochastic partial differential equations. The research establishes the observability inequality for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Liying Sun , Xiaohan Wang , Yongyi Yu

In this paper, we study the problem of how to optimally steer the state covariance of a general continuous-time linear stochastic system over a finite time interval subject to additive noise. Optimality here means reaching a target state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-16 Fengjiao Liu , Panagiotis Tsiotras

- We discuss the approximation of distributed null controls for partial differential equations. The main purpose is to determine an approximation of controls that drives the solution from a prescribed initial state at the initial time to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Arnaud Münch , Pablo Pedregal

In this paper, we investigate an optimal boundary control problem for a two dimensional simplified Ericksen--Leslie system modelling the incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows. The hydrodynamic system consists of the Navier--Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 C. Cavaterra , E. Rocca , H. Wu

Recent low-thrust space missions have highlighted the importance of designing trajectories that are robust against uncertainties. In its complete form, this process is formulated as a nonlinear constrained stochastic optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Naoya Ozaki , Stefano Campagnola , Ryu Funase

We integrate a discrete vortex method with complex network analysis to strategize dynamic stall mitigation over a pitching airfoil with active flow control. The objective is to inform actuator placement and timing to introduce control…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Het D. Patel , Yi Tsung Lee , Ashok Gopalarathnam , Chi-An Yeh

Boundary integral numerical methods are among the most accurate methods for interfacial Stokes flow, and are widely applied. They have the advantage that only the boundary of the domain must be discretized, which reduces the number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-18 David M. Ambrose , Michael Siegel , Keyang Zhang

A mechanical model and finite element method for the simultaneous solution of Stokes and incompressible Navier-Stokes flows on multiple curved surfaces over a bulk domain are proposed. The two-dimensional surfaces are defined implicitly by…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Michael Wolfgang Kaiser , Thomas-Peter Fries

We study Dirichlet boundary control of Stokes flows in 2D polygonal domains. We consider cost functionals with two different boundary control regularization terms: the $L^2$ norm and an energy space seminorm. We prove well-posedness and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-18 W. Gong , M. Mateos , J. Singler , Y. Zhang

In the present article, we introduce and study a model addressing the Stokes problem with non-linear boundary conditions of the Tresca type. We suggest a new procedure for regularizing incompressible fluid, i.e. we assume that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-04 A. Zafrar

We present a robust optimisation framework for computing invariant solutions of wall-bounded flows by recasting the Navier-Stokes equations as a variational problem as established in Ashtari and Schneider, JFM (2023). The approach minimises…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Thomas Burton , Sean Symon , Davide Lasagna

In this paper, we consider optimal control problems derived by stochastic systems with delay, where control domains are non-convex and the diffusion coefficients depend on control variables. By an estimate of the integral of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Qixia Zhang

We deal with the 3D Navier-Stokes equation in a smooth simply connected bounded domain, with controls on a non-empty open part of the boundary and a Navier slip-with-friction boundary condition on the remaining, uncontrolled, part of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-14 J. Liao , F. Sueur , P. Zhang

The aim of this paper is to investigate the existence of optimal controls for systems described by stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with locally monotone coefficients controlled by different external forces which are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Edson A. Coayla-Teran , Paulo M. Dias de Magalhães , Jorge Ferreira

In this article, we address the velocity tracking control problem for a class of stochastic non-Newtonian fluids. More precisely, we consider the stochastic third-grade fluid equation perturbed by infinite-dimensional additive white noise…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Kush Kinra , Fernanda Cipriano