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This paper is concerned with the state-constrained optimal control of the three-dimensional thermistor problem, a fully quasilinear coupled system of a parabolic and elliptic PDE with mixed boundary conditions. This system models the…

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This paper studies (single-time and multitime) optimal control problems on a nonholonomic manifold (described either by the kernel of a Gibbs-Pfaff form or by the span of appropriate vector fields). For both descriptions we analyse:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Constantin Udriste

In this paper we prove necessary conditions for optimality of a stochastic control problem for a class of stochastic partial differential equations that is controlled through the boundary. This kind of problems can be interpreted as a…

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The KWC system is a well-known generic framework for phase-field models of grain boundary motion, whose original formulation is given as a parabolic gradient flow of a free energy. In the original KWC system, the results of uniqueness have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Harbir Antil , Daiki Mizuno , Ken Shirakawa

This paper considers the stochastic linear quadratic optimal control problem in which the control domain is nonconvex. By the functional analysis and convex perturbation methods, we establish a novel maximum principle. The application of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Shaolin Ji , Xiaole Xue

We use the continuation and bifurcation package pde2path to numerically analyze infinite time horizon optimal control problems for parabolic systems of PDEs. The basic idea is a two step approach to the canonical systems, derived from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Hannes Uecker , Hannes de Witt

We consider a heat conduction problem $S$ with mixed boundary conditions in a $n$-dimensional domain $\Omega$ with regular boundary and a family of problems $S_{\alpha}$ with also mixed boundary conditions in $\Omega$, where $\alpha>0$ is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 C. M. Bollo , C. M. Gariboldi , D. A. Tarzia

We consider optimal control of fractional in time (subdiffusive, i.e., for $% 0<\gamma <1$) semilinear parabolic PDEs associated with various notions of diffusion operators in an unifying fashion. Under general assumptions on the…

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This work presents and analyzes space-time finite element methods on fully unstructured simplicial space-time meshes for the numerical solution of parabolic optimal control problems. Using Babu\v{s}ka's theorem, we show well-posedness of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Fredi Tröltzsch , Huidong Yang

We study the Pontryagin maximum principle by deriving necessary and sufficient conditions for a class of optimal control problems arising in non exchangeable mean field systems, where agents interact through heterogeneous and asymmetric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Idris Kharroubi , Samy Mekkaoui , Huyên Pham

In this paper, we focus on a method based on optimal control to address the optimization problem. The objective is to find the optimal solution that minimizes the objective function. We transform the optimization problem into optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Yeming Xu , Ziyuan Guo , Hongxia Wang , Huanshui Zhang

In this paper, we study an optimal boundary control problem for a model for phase separation taking place in a spatial domain that was introduced by Podio-Guidugli in Ric. Mat. 55 (2006), pp. 105-118. The model consists of a strongly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

This paper investigates the exact controllability problem for multi-dimensional stochastic first-order symmetric hyperbolic systems with control inputs acting in two distinct ways: an internal control applied to the diffusion term and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Zengyu Li , Qi Lü , Yu Wang , Haitian Yang

In this work, we will investigate the question of optimal control for bilinear systems with constrained endpoint. The optimal control will be characterized through a set of unconstrained minimization problems that approximate the former.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Soufiane Yahyaoui , Lahoussine Lafhim , Mohamed Ouzahra

We consider a heat conduction problem $S$ with mixed boundary conditions in a n-dimensional domain $\Omega$ with regular boundary $\Gamma$ and a family of problems $S_{\alpha}$, where the parameter $\alpha>0$ is the heat transfer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Domingo A. Tarzia , Carolina M. Bollo , Claudia M. Gariboldi

We derive novel algorithms for optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations describing multiscale particle dynamics, including non-local integral terms representing interactions between particles. In particular, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Mildred Aduamoah , Benjamin D. Goddard , John W. Pearson , Jonna C. Roden

We consider the optimal control problem of a general nonlinear spatio-temporal system described by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Theory and algorithms for control of spatio-temporal systems are of rising interest among the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Ethan N. Evans , Oswin So , Andrew P. Kendall , Guan-Horng Liu , Evangelos A. Theodorou

This paper extends the domination-monotonicity conditions, which guarantee the well-posedness of extended mean-filed forward-backward stochastic differential equations (extended MF-FBSDEs), from the previously studied linear framework to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Hao Wu

For parabolic PDEs, we present a new certainty equivalence-based adaptive boundary control scheme with a least-squares identifier of an event-triggering type, where the triggering is based on the size of the regulation error (as opposed to…

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