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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-03 Michel Duprez , Morgan Morancey , Francesco Rossi

We study a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving a parabolic equation with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative of orders $s \in (0,1)$ and $\gamma \in (0,1]$, respectively. The spatial fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-02 Harbir Antil , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

This note is concerned with the study of the initial boundary value problem for systems of conservation laws from the point of view of control theory, where the initial data is fixed and the boundary data are regarded as control functions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. Ancona , A. Bressan , G. M. Coclite

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,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Christos Pervolianakis

We study a control problem governed by a semilinear parabolic equation. The control is a measure that acts as the kernel of a possibly nonlocal time delay term and the functional includes a non-differentiable term with the measure-norm of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Eduardo Casas , Mariano Mateos , Fredi Tröltzsch

In this paper, we continue the study of some controllability issues for the forward stochastic parabolic equation with dynamic boundary conditions. The main novelty in the present paper consists of considering only one control without extra…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Said Boulite , Abdellatif Elgrou , Lahcen Maniar , Omar Oukdach

In this paper, we study the null controllability of a nonlinear age, space and two-sex structured population dynamics model. This model is such that the nonlinearity and the couplage are at birth level. We consider a population with males…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Simporé Yacouba , Traoré Oumar

This paper deals with the problem of internal null-controllability of a heat equation posed on a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions and perturbed by a semilinear nonlocal term. We prove the small-time local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Kévin Le Balc'h

We investigate the controllability of a generalized diffusive Lotka-Volterra competition model for two species, incorporating boundary controls and an interior multiplicative control. Considering a smooth, bounded N-dimensional domain, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 João Carlos Barreira , Maicon Sonego , Enrique Zuazua

In this paper we discuss the optimal control of a quasilinear parabolic state equation. Its form is leaned on the kind of problems arising for example when controlling the anisotropic Allen-Cahn equation as a model for crystal growth.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Luise Blank , Johannes Meisinger

This paper is devoted to a study of the controllability of a free-boundary problem for a class of one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equations with distributed controls, locally supported in space. We prove that for any $T>0$, if the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Lingyang Liu

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Idriss Boutaayamoua , Fouad Et-tahri , Lahcen Maniar

In this paper, we consider the finite element approximation to a parabolic Dirichlet boundary control problem and establish new a priori error estimates. In the temporal semi-discretization we apply the DG(0) method for the state and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Dongdong Liang , Wei Gong , Xiaoping Xie

For periodic linear control systems with bounded control range, an autonomized system is introduced by adding the phase to the state of the system. Here a unique control set (i.e., a maximal set of approximate controllability) with nonvoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Fritz Colonius , Alexandre Santana , Juliana Setti

In this Note, we review the main existing results, methods, and some key open problems on the controllability of nonlinear hyperbolic and parabolic equations. Especially, we describe our recent universal approach to solve the local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-04-17 Xu Zhang

We study the global approximate controllability of the reaction-diffusion equation in a parallelpiped $ \Omega = (a_1,b_1 ) \times \ldots (a_n,b_n) \subset R^n $, governed by a multiplicative control in a reaction term. It is assumed that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Alexander Khapalov

We consider a one-dimensional controlled reaction-diffusion equation, where the control acts on the boundary and is subject to a constant delay. Such a model is a paradigm for more general parabolic systems coupled with a transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Delphine Bresch-Pietri , Christophe Prieur , Emmanuel Trélat

The problem of metastability for a stochastic dynamics with a parallel updating rule is addressed in the Freidlin--Wentzel regime, namely, finite volume, small magnetic field, and small temperature. The model is characterized by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Cristian Spitoni , Francesca R. Nardi

Reaction-diffusion equations are studied on bounded, time-periodic domains with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions. The long-time behaviour is shown to depend on the principal periodic eigenvalue of a transformed periodic-parabolic problem.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Jane Allwright

We study the boundary control problems for the wave, heat, and Schr\"odinger equations on a finite graph. We suppose that the graph is a tree (i.e., it does not contain cycles), and on each edge an equation is defined. The control is acting…

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