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In this paper, an optimal control problem governed by a class of p-Laplacian elliptic equations is studied. In particular, as no monotonicity assumption is assumed on the nonlinear term, the state equation may admit several solutions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Hongwei Lou , Shu Luan

The heart of the a priori and a posteriori error control in convex minimization problems is the sharp control of the differences of discrete and exact minimal energy. Conforming finite element discretizations for p-Laplace type minimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Carsten Carstensen , Ngoc Tien Tran

This work addresses an optimal control problem constrained by a degenerate kinetic equation of parabolic-hyperbolic type. Using a hypocoercivity framework we establish the well-posedness of the problem and demonstrate that the optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Aaron Pim , Tristan Pryer , Alex Trenam

This paper explores a fully discrete approximation for a nonlinear hyperbolic PDE-constrained optimization problem (P) with applications in acoustic full waveform inversion. The optimization problem is primarily complicated by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Luis Ammann , Irwin Yousept

We investigate constrained optimal control problems for linear stochastic dynamical systems evolving in discrete time. We consider minimization of an expected value cost over a finite horizon. Hard constraints are introduced first, and then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-07 Eugenio Cinquemani , Mayank Agarwal , Debasish Chatterjee , John Lygeros

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

The present paper aims at providing a numerical strategy to deal with PDE-constrained optimization problems solved with the adjoint method. It is done through out a unified formulation of the constraint PDE and the adjoint model. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Gino I. Montecinos , Juan Lopez-Rios , Jaime H. Ortega , Rodrigo Lecaros

This work deals with optimal control problems as a strategy to drive bifurcating solution of nonlinear parametrized partial differential equations towards a desired branch. Indeed, for these governing equations, multiple solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Federico Pichi , Maria Strazzullo , Francesco Ballarin , Gianluigi Rozza

In this work, we develop adaptive schemes using goal-oriented error control for a highly nonlinear flow temperature model with temperature dependent density. The dual-weighted residual method for computing error indicators to steer mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Sven Beuchler , Ayhan Demircan , Bernhard Endtmayer , Uwe Morgner , Thomas Wick

We consider mixed-integer optimal control problems with combinatorial constraints that couple over time such as minimum dwell times. We analyze a lifting and decomposition approach into a mixed-integer optimal control problem without…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Simone Göttlich , Falk M. Hante , Andreas Potschka , Lars Schewe

This paper studies distributed convex optimization with both affine equality and nonlinear inequality couplings through the duality analysis. We first formulate the dual of the coupling-constraint problem and reformulate it as a consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Chenyang Qiu , Yangyang Qian , Zongli Lin , Yacov A. Shamash

In this work, a multirate in time approach resolving the different time scales of a convection-dominated transport and coupled fluid flow is developed and studied in view of goal-oriented error control by means of the Dual Weighted Residual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Marius Paul Bruchhäuser , Uwe Köcher , Markus Bause

This work investigates an elliptic optimal control problem defined on uncertain domains and discretized by a fictitious domain finite element method and cut elements. Key ingredients of the study are to manage cases considering the usually…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Aikaterini Aretaki , Efthymios N. Karatzas

This chapter describes how a posteriori error estimates targeting a user-defined quantity of interest, using the Dual Weighted Residual (DWR) technique, can be easily applied for biomechanical simulations in current engineering practice.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Roland Becker , Franz Chouly , Michel Duprez , Thomas Richter , Pierre-Yves Rohan , Thomas Wick

We consider solving equality-constrained nonlinear, nonconvex optimization problems. This class of problems appears widely in a variety of applications in machine learning and engineering, ranging from constrained deep neural networks, to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Ilgee Hong , Sen Na , Michael W. Mahoney , Mladen Kolar

We present a parameter estimation method in Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) models. Due to complex relationships between parameters and states the use of standard techniques such as nonlinear least squares can lead to the presence of…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-11 Quentin Clairon

In this paper, near optimal tracking of a class of nonlinear systems is addressed. Adaptive (approximate) dynamic programming approach is used to calculate the optimal control in closed form. ADP (Adaptive (approximate) dynamic programming)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Farshid Asadi , Ali Heydari

We consider some certain nonlinear perturbations of the stochastic linear-quadratic optimization problems and study the connections between their solutions and the corresponding Markovian backward stochastic diferential equations (BSDEs).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Coskun Cetin

We formulate the immersed-boundary method (IBM) as an inverse problem. A control variable is introduced on the boundary of a larger domain that encompasses the target domain. The optimal control is the one that minimizes the mismatch…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Jianfeng Yan , Jason Edward Hicken

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems for Allen-Cahn equations with singular nonlinearities and a dynamic boundary condition involving singular nonlinearities and the Laplace-Beltrami operator. The approach covers both the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Pierluigi Colli , Jürgen Sprekels