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An adaptive direct collocation method is developed for solving optimal control problems constrained by parabolic partial differential equations. The partial differential equation is first reformulated in a variational setting, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Alexander M. Davies , Sara Pollock , Miriam E. Dennis , Anil V. Rao

Since the 1960's the finite element method emerged as a powerful tool for the numerical simulation of countless physical phenomena or processes in applied sciences. One of the reasons for this undeniable success is the great versatility of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Vitoriano Ruas

A method is presented for the numerical solution of optimal boundary control problems governed by parabolic partial differential equations. The continuous space-time optimal control problem is transcribed into a sparse nonlinear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Alexander M. Davies , Sara Pollock , Miriam E. Dennis , Anil V. Rao

We consider an elliptic optimal control problem where the objective functional contains an integral along a surface of codimension 1, also known as a hypersurface. In particular, we use a fidelity term that encourages the state to take…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-19 C. Brett , A. S. Dedner , C. M. Elliott

This article provides quasi-optimal a priori error estimates for an optimal control problem constrained by an elliptic obstacle problem where the finite element discretization is carried out using the symmetric interior penalty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Harbir Antil , Rohit Khandelwal , Umarkhon Rakhimov

We consider a linear-quadratic pde constrained optimal control problem on an evolving surface with pointwise state constraints. We reformulate the optimization problem on a fixed surface and approximate the reformulated problem by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Michael Hinze , Heiko Kröner

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently become a popular method for solving forward and inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). By incorporating the residual of the PDE into the loss function of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Saviz Mowlavi , Saleh Nabi

We propose, analyze, and test new iterative solvers for large-scale systems of linear algebraic equations arising from the finite element discretization of reduced optimality systems defining the finite element approximations to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

This article deals with the computation of guaranteed lower bounds of the error in the framework of finite element (FE) and domain decomposition (DD) methods. In addition to a fully parallel computation, the proposed lower bounds separate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Valentine Rey , Pierre Gosselet , Christian Rey

We consider an optimal control problem subject to a semilinear elliptic PDE together with its variational discretization. We provide a condition which allows to decide whether a solution of the necessary first order conditions is a global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Ahmad Ahmad Ali , Klaus Deckelnick , Michael Hinze

This work addresses the finite-horizon robust covariance control problem for discrete-time, partially observable, linear system affected by random zero mean noise and deterministic but unknown disturbances restricted to lie in what is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Georgios Kotsalis , Guanghui Lan , Arkadi Nemirovski

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

Monotone finite difference methods provide stable convergent discretizations of a class of degenerate elliptic and parabolic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). These methods are best suited to regular rectangular grids, which leads to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Adam M. Oberman , Ian Zwiers

Motivated by various applications, this article develops the notion of boundary control for Maxwell's equations in the frequency domain. Surface curl is shown to be the appropriate regularization in order for the optimal control problem to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Harbir Antil , Hugo Díaz

Recently the authors have studied a state and control constrained optimal control problem with fractional elliptic PDE as constraints. The goal of this paper is to continue that program forward and introduce an algorithm to solve such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Harbir Antil , Thomas S. Brown , Deepanshu Verma

The article examines a linear-quadratic Neumann control problem that is governed by a non-coercive elliptic equation. Due to the non-self-adjoint nature of the linear control-to-state operator, it is necessary to independently study both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Thomas Apel , Mariano Mateos , Arnd Rösch

This article investigates the numerical approximation of shape optimization problems with PDE constraint on classes of convex domains. The convexity constraint provides a compactness property which implies well posedness of the problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Sören Bartels , Gerd Wachsmuth

The Morley finite element method (FEM) is attractive for semilinear problems with the biharmonic operator as a leading term in the stream function vorticity formulation of 2D Navier-Stokes problem and in the von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Carsten Carstensen , Gouranga Mallik , Neela Nataraj

We propose a new discretization method for PDEs on moving domains in the setting of unfitted finite element methods, which is provably higher-order accurate in space and time. In the considered setting, the physical domain that evolves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Yimin Lou , Christoph Lehrenfeld

We propose and analyze reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimators for an optimal control problem that involves a nondifferentiable cost functional, the Poisson problem as state equation and control constraints. To approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Alejandro Allendes , Francisco Fuica , Enrique Otárola