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We show that value functions of a certain time-dependent control problem in $\Omega\times (0,T)$, with a continuous payoff $F$ on the parabolic boundary, converge uniformly to the viscosity solution of the parabolic dominative $p$-Laplace…
This paper deals with the numerical computation of boundary null controls for the 1D wave equation with a potential. The goal is to compute an approximation of controls that drive the solution from a prescribed initial state to zero at a…
This paper considers optimal control of fractional parabolic PDEs with both state and control constraints. The key challenge is how to handle the state constraints. Similarly, to the elliptic case, in this paper, we establish several new…
Space-time finite element discretizations of time-optimal control problems governed by linear parabolic PDEs and subject to pointwise control constraints are considered. Optimal a priori error estimates are obtained for the control variable…
It is a longstanding unsolved problem to characterize the optimal feedback controls for general linear quadratic optimal control problem of stochastic evolution equation with random coefficients. A solution to this problem is given in [21]…
Goal of this paper is to study classes of Cauchy-Dirichlet problems which include parabolic equations of the type $$u_t -\Delta u= a(x,t)f(u)\quad\hbox{in $\Omega\times(0,T)$}$$ with $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ bounded, convex domain and…
Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in ${\mathbb R}^N$ and $T>0$. We study the problem \begin{equation} (P)\left\{ \begin{array}{lll} u_t - \Delta u \pm g(u) &= \mu \quad &\text{in } Q_T:=\Omega \times (0,T) \\ \phantom{------,} u&=0 &\text{on…
In this paper we study the following three-dimensional parabolic-parabolic chemo-repulsion model with potential production, logistic reaction and bilinear control, defined in $Q=(0,T)\times\Omega$: \begin{equation*}\label{eq0} \left\{…
In this paper, we study the parabolic equations of the form $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} Lu(y,t) &=& f, \qquad &(y,t)\in Q,\\ u(y,t)&=& 0, \qquad &(y,t)\in \partial Q, \\ u(y,t)&& \hspace{-8mm}\mbox{is uniformly bounded from below},…
We study the obstacle problem for parabolic operators of the type $\partial_t + L$, where $L$ is an elliptic integro-differential operator of order $2s$, such as $(-\Delta)^s$, in the supercritical regime $s \in (0,{1/2})$. The best result…
This paper is concerned with a shape optimization problem governed by a non-smooth PDE, i.e., the nonlinearity in the state equation is not necessarily differentiable. We follow the functional variational approach of [40] where the set of…
We study the periodic homogenization of convex Hamilton-Jacobi equations on perforated domains with Dirichlet boundary conditions. By analyzing the optimal control representation of the solutions and the properties of the metric function…
In this paper we consider the Hamiltonian formulation of the equations of incompressible ideal fluid flow from the point of view of optimal control theory. The equations are compared to the finite symmetric rigid body equations analyzed…
We consider an optimal control problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality of the second kind. The problem is discretized by linear finite elements for the state and a variational discrete approach for the control. Based on a…
We shall consider a stochastic maximum principle of optimal control for a control problem associated with a stochastic partial differential equations of the following type: d x(t) = (A(t) x(t) + a (t, u(t)) x(t) + b(t, u(t)) dt +…
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…
We study the problem of controlling the initial condition of a vibrating beam. The optimal control problem seeks to determine solutions of initial velocity that assure the approach of the state of the beam to a given target function in the…
We investigate the numerical approximation of an elliptic optimal control problem which involves a nonconvex local regularization of the $L^q$-quasinorm penalization (with $q\in(0,1)$) in the cost function. Our approach is based on the…
We study a control problem governed by a semilinear parabolic equation. The control is a measure that acts as the kernel of a possibly nonlocal time delay term and the functional includes a non-differentiable term with the measure-norm of…
Optimality conditions in the form of a variational inequality are proved for a class of constrained optimal control problems of stochastic differential equations. The cost function and the inequality constraints are functions of the…