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The main aim of this article is to analyze mixed finite element method for the second order Dirichlet boundary control problem. Therein, we develop both a priori and a posteriori error analysis using the energy space based approach. We…

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The implementation of the finite element method for linear elliptic equations requires to assemble the stiffness matrix and the load vector. In general, the entries of this matrix-vector system are not known explicitly but need to be…

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We consider a class of parameter-dependent optimal control problems of elliptic PDEs with constraints of general type on the control variable. Applying the concept of variational discretization, [4], together with techniques from the…

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In this paper we study an optimal control problem (OCP) associated to a linear elliptic equation {on a bounded domain $\Omega$}. The matrix-valued coefficients A of such systems is our control taken in L2 which in particular may comprise…

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We present a finite element method along with its analysis for the optimal control of a model free boundary problem with surface tension effects, formulated and studied in \cite{HAntil_RHNochetto_PSodre_2014a}. The state system couples the…

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We consider a space-time finite element method on fully unstructured simplicial meshes for optimal sparse control of semilinear parabolic equations. The objective is a combination of a standard quadratic tracking-type functional including a…

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An optimal control problem for semilinear parabolic partial differential equations is considered. The control variable appears in the leading term of the equation. Necessary conditions for optimal controls are established by the method of…

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In this paper we study an optimal control problem associated to a linear degenerate elliptic equation with mixed boundary conditions. The equations of this type can exhibit the Lavrentieff phenomenon and non-uniqueness of weak solutions. We…

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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…

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Necessary optimality conditions and numerical methods for solving an optimal control problem for a linear continuous-time dynanical system with controlled coefficients and quadratic goal functional are discussed.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-20 Olga V. Baturina , Alexander V. Bulatov , Vadim F. Krotov

The paper deals with finite element approximations of elliptic Dirichlet boundary control problems posed on two-dimensional polygonal domains. Error estimates are derived for the approximation of the control and the state variables. Special…

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We consider a distributed optimal control problem governed by an elliptic PDE, and propose an embedded discontinuous Galerkin (EDG) method to approximate the solution. We derive optimal a priori error estimates for the state, dual state,…

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This paper presents a method to approximately solve stochastic optimal control problems in which the cost function and the system dynamics are polynomial. For stochastic systems with polynomial dynamics, the moments of the state can be…

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In this paper, we investigate an optimal control problem governed by parabolic equations with measure-valued controls over time. We establish the well-posedness of the optimal control problem and derive the first-order optimality condition…

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This paper is concerned with a constrained stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem, in which the terminal state is fixed and the initial state is constrained to lie in a stochastic linear manifold. The controllability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Xiuchun Bi , Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

In this paper, elliptic control problems with integral constraint on the gradient of the state and box constraints on the control are considered. The optimal conditions of the problem are proved. To numerically solve the problem, we use the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Zixuan Chen , Xiaoliang Song , Bo Yu , Xiaotong Chen

In this paper we present a finite element analysis for a Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by the Stokes equation. The Dirichlet control is considered in a convex closed subset of the energy space $\mathbf{H}^1(\Omega).$ Most of…

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