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We devise an a posteriori error estimator for an affine optimal control problem subject to a semilinear elliptic PDE and control constraints. To approximate the problem, we consider a semidiscrete scheme based on the variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Francisco Fuica , Nicolai Jork

This paper focuses on the quasi-optimality of an adaptive nonconforming finite element method for a distributed optimal control problem governed by the Stokes equation. The nonconforming lowest order Crouzeix-Raviart element and piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Tooba M. Shaikh , Asha K. Dond

Finite element approximations of Dirichlet boundary control problems governed by parabolic PDEs on convex polygonal domains are studied in this paper. The existence of a unique solution to optimal control problems is guaranteed based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Wei Gong , Michael Hinze , Zhaojie Zhou

We develop two adaptive discretization algorithms for convex semi-infinite optimization, which terminate after finitely many iterations at approximate solutions of arbitrary precision. In particular, they terminate at a feasible point of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Jochen Schmid , Miltiadis Poursanidis

We derive a-priori error estimates for the finite-element approximation of a distributed optimal control problem governed by the steady one-dimensional Burgers equation with pointwise box constraints on the control. Here the approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Pedro Martín Merino Rosero

We consider an abstract framework for the numerical solution of optimal control problems (OCPs) subject to partial differential equations (PDEs). Examples include not only the distributed control of elliptic PDEs such as the Poisson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

The present study investigates a linear-quadratic Dirichlet control problem governed by a non-coercive elliptic equation posed on a possibly non-convex polygonal domain. Tikhonov regularization is carried out in an energy seminorm. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Thomas Apel , Mariano Mateos , Arnd Rösch

We consider the primal and dual forms of the optimality conditions for PDE-contrained optimization problems arising in Data-Driven Computational Mechanics when specialized to the reaction-diffusion context. Starting with the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Ramon Codina , Roberto Federico Ausas , Pedro Balbão Bazon , Cristian Guillermo Gebhardt

This paper introduces a new variational formulation for Dirichlet boundary control problem of elliptic partial differential equations, based on observations that the state and adjoint state are related through the control on the boundary of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Shaohong Du , Zhiqiang Cai

It is well known that the quasi-optimality of the Galerkin finite element method for the Helmholtz equation is dependent on the mesh size and the wave-number. In the literature, different criteria have been proposed to ensure uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Tim van Beeck , Umberto Zerbinati

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

In this paper, we discuss the numerical approximation of a distributed optimal control problem governed by the von Karman equations, defined in polygonal domains with point-wise control constraints. Conforming finite elements are employed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Gouranga Mallik , Neela Nataraj , Jean-Pierre Raymond

In [1] we consider an optimal control problem subject to a semilinear elliptic PDE together with its variational discretization, where we provide a condition which allows to decide whether a solution of the necessary first order conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Ahmad Ahmad Ali , Klaus Deckelnick , Michael Hinze

We study an optimal control problem under uncertainty, where the target function is the solution of an elliptic partial differential equation with random coefficients, steered by a control function. The robust formulation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Philipp A. Guth , Vesa Kaarnioja , Frances Y. Kuo , Claudia Schillings , Ian H. Sloan

A continuous optimal control problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality was considered in Boukrouche-Tarzia, Comput. Optim. Appl., 53 (2012), 375-392 where the control variable is the internal energy $g$. It was proved the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Mariela Olguín , Domingo A. Tarzia

This article presents a constrained policy optimization approach for the optimal control of systems under nonstationary uncertainties. We introduce an assumption that we call Markov embeddability that allows us to cast the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sungho Shin , François Pacaud , Emil Contantinescu , Mihai Anitescu

In this paper, a quadratic optimal control problem is considered for second-order parabolic PDEs with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, in which the "point" control function (depending only on time) constitutes a source term. These…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Gilberto O. Corrêa , Marlon M. López-Flores , Alexandre L. Madureira

In this paper, we analyze the convergence of several discretize-then-optimize algorithms, based on either a second-order or a fourth-order finite difference discretization, for solving elliptic PDE-constrained optimization or optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Jun Liu , Zhu Wang

This paper first makes an attempt to investigate the partial information near optimal control of systems governed by forward-backward stochastic differential equations with observation noise under the assumption of a convex control domain.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Qingxin Meng , Qiuhong Shi , Maoning Tang

In this paper we discuss the numerical solution of elliptic distributed optimal control problems with state or control constraints when the control is considered in the energy norm. As in the unconstrained case we can relate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Peter Gangl , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach