Related papers: Non-smooth optimization for robust control of infi…
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…
In this article, we study boundary null controllability properties of the linearized compressible Navier-Stokes equations in the interval $(0,2\pi)$ for both barotropic and non-barotropic fluids using only one boundary control. We consider…
This paper deals with the insensitizing controllability property of the quasilinear parabolic equation with dynamic boundary conditions. This problem can be reformulated as a null controllability problem for a cascade quasilinear system…
A novel trust region method for solving linearly constrained nonlinear programs is presented. The proposed technique is amenable to a distributed implementation, as its salient ingredient is an alternating projected gradient sweep in place…
Toward scalable quantum computing, the control of quantum systems needs to be robust against both coherent errors induced by parametric uncertainties and incoherent errors induced by environmental decoherence. This poses significant…
In this work, we present a heretofore unseen application of Ising machines to perform trust region-based optimisation with box constraints. This is done by considering a specific form of opto-electronic oscillator-based coherent Ising…
We survey results of recent activity towards studying controllability and accessibility issues for equations of dynamics of incompressible fluids controlled by low-dimensional or, degenerate, forcing. New results concerning controllability…
This paper is devoted to the study, for the first time in the literature, of optimal control problems for sweeping processes governed by integro-differential inclusions of the Volterra type with different classes of control functions acting…
In this paper, we propose a novel unstructured mesh control volume method to deal with the space fractional derivative on arbitrarily shaped convex domains, which to the best of our knowledge is a new contribution to the literature.…
We discuss a mathematical framework for analysis of optimal control problems on infinite-dimensional manifolds. Such problems arise in study of optimization for partial differential equations with some symmetry. It is shown that some…
For solving large-scale non-convex problems, we propose inexact variants of trust region and adaptive cubic regularization methods, which, to increase efficiency, incorporate various approximations. In particular, in addition to approximate…
A numerical algorithm for solving mantle convection problems with strongly variable viscosity is presented. Equations for conservation of mass and momentum for highly viscous and incompressible fluids are solved iteratively by a multigrid…
We consider the motion of a rigid body immersed in a two-dimensional viscous incompressible fluid with Navierslip-with-friction conditions at the solid boundary. The fluid-solid system occupies the whole plane. We provethe small-time exact…
We propose a trust-region method for finite-sum minimization with an adaptive sample size adjustment technique, which is practical in the sense that it leads to a globally convergent method that shows strong performance empirically without…
Non-smoothness at optimal points is a common phenomenon in many eigenvalue optimization problems. We consider two recent algorithms to minimize the largest eigenvalue of a Hermitian matrix dependent on one parameter, both proven to be…
In this paper we study a distributed optimal control problem for a nonlocal convective Cahn--Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility and singular potential in three dimensions of space. While the cost functional is of standard tracking…
We propose a globally convergent trust-region bundle method for minimizing lower-$C^2$ functions using higher-order cutting-plane models. Under certain growth assumptions on the objective around its minimum, the method is able to compute…
This note examines the robustness properties of the nonlinear PI control method to ignored actuator dynamics. It is proven that global boundedness and regulation can be achieved for sector bounded nonlinear systems with unknown control…
This paper proposes a finite-horizon optimal control strategy for set-point tracking using a nonlinear model predictive control framework with integrated avoidance capabilities. The formulation employs a smooth point-to-cloud distance…
We present a globally convergent method for the solution of frictionless large deformation contact problems for hyperelastic materials. The discretisation uses the mortar method which is known to be more stable than node-to-segment…