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In this paper, we consider a class of time-optimal control problems governed by linear parabolic equations with mixed control-state constraints and end-point constraints, and without Tikhonov regularization term in the objective function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Huynh Khanh , Bui Trong Kien

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

The aim of this paper is to develop and analyze high-order time stepping schemes for solving semilinear subdiffusion equations. We apply the $k$-step BDF convolution quadrature to discretize the time-fractional derivative with order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Kai Wang , Zhi Zhou

We consider the development of high order space and time numerical methods based on Implicit-Explicit (IMEX) multistep time integrators for hyperbolic systems with relaxation. More specifically, we consider hyperbolic balance laws in which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Giacomo Albi , Giacomo Dimarco , Lorenzo Pareschi

In this paper we consider a linearized variable-time-step two-step backward differentiation formula (BDF2) scheme for solving nonlinear parabolic equations. The scheme is constructed by using the variable time-step BDF2 for the linear term…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Chengchao Zhao , Nan Liu , Yuheng Ma , Jiwei Zhang

We consider the development of high order asymptotic-preserving linear multistep methods for kinetic equations and related problems. The methods are first developed for BGK-like kinetic models and then extended to the case of the full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-06 Giacomo Dimarco , Lorenzo Pareschi

This paper discusses the computation of derivatives for optimization problems governed by linear hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) that are discretized by the discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method. An efficient and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Lucas C. Wilcox , Georg Stadler , Tan Bui-Thanh , Omar Ghattas

We study solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic systems with fully nonlinear relaxation terms in the limit of, both, infinitely stiff relaxation and arbitrary late time. In this limit, the dynamics is governed by effective systems of parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-18 Sebastiano Boscarino , Philippe G. LeFloch , Giovanni Russo

Discrete time stochastic optimal control problems and Markov decision processes (MDPs), respectively, serve as fundamental models for problems that involve sequential decision making under uncertainty and as such constitute the theoretical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Christian Beck , Arnulf Jentzen , Konrad Kleinberg , Thomas Kruse

This is one of our series papers on multistep schemes for solving forward backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) and related problems. Here we extend (with non-trivial updates) our multistep schemes in [W. Zhao, Y. Fu and T.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Kong Tao , Weidong Zhao , Tao Zhou

Several relaxation approximations to partial differential equations have been recently proposed. Examples include conservation laws, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, convection-diffusion problems, gas dynamics problems. The present paper focuses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fausto Cavalli , Giovanni Naldi , Gabriella Puppo , Matteo Semplice

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Alejandro Allendes , Francisco Fuica , Enrique Otarola

This dissertation explores block decomposable methods for large-scale optimization problems. It focuses on alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) schemes and block coordinate descent (BCD) methods. Specifically, it introduces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Leandro Farias Maia

The paper studies the First Order BSPDEs (Backward Stochastic Partial Differential Equations) suggested earlier for a case of multidimensional state domain with a boundary. These equations represent analogs of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-10-31 Nikolai Dokuchaev

We propose a time domain decomposition approach to optimal control of partial differential equations (PDEs) based on semigroup theoretic methods. We formulate the optimality system consisting of two coupled forward-backward PDEs, the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Bálint Farkas , Birgit Jacob , Manuel Schaller , Merlin Schmitz

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems governed by semilinear elliptic variational inequalities involving constraints on the state, and more precisely the obstacle problem. Since we adopt a numerical point of view, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-10 El Hassene Osmani , Mounir Haddou , Naceurdine Bensalem

Optimal control for switch-based dynamical systems is a challenging problem in the process control literature. In this study, we model these systems as hybrid dynamical systems with finite number of unknown switching points and reformulate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Saif R. Kazi , Kexin Wang , Lorenz T. Biegler

We study the numerical approximation by space-time finite element methods of a multi-physics system coupling hyperbolic elastodynamics with parabolic transport and modeling poro- and thermoelasticity. The equations are rewritten as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Markus Bause , Mathias Anselmann , Uwe Köcher , Florin A. Radu

We introduce the optimality question to the relaxation in multiple control problems described by Sobolev type nonlinear fractional differential equations with nonlocal control conditions in Banach spaces. Moreover, we consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-21 Amar Debbouche , Juan J. Nieto , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this paper we consider a parabolic optimal control problem with a Dirac type control with moving point source in two space dimensions. We discretize the problem with piecewise constant functions in time and continuous piecewise linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler