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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.…

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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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Hannes Meinlschmidt , Christian Meyer , Joachim Rehberg

We examine the minimization of a quadratic cost functional composed of the output and the final state of abstract infinite-dimensional evolution equations in view of existence of solutions and optimality conditions. While the initial value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Timo Reis , Manuel Schaller

We are concerned with the optimal control problem of the well known nonlocal thermistor problem, i.e., in studying the heat transfer in the resistor device whose electrical conductivity is strongly dependent on the temperature. Existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi , Delfim F. M. Torres

We consider a stochastic optimal control problem for an heat equation with boundary noise and boundary controls. Under suitable assumptions on the coefficients, we prove existence of optimal controls in strong sense by solving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Giuseppina Guatteri , Federica Masiero

We study optimal control problems that are governed by semilinear elliptic partial differential equations that involve non-Lipschitzian nonlinearities. It is shown that, for a certain class of such PDEs, the solution map is Fr\'{e}chet…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Constantin Christof

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems for Allen-Cahn equations with singular nonlinearities and a dynamic boundary condition involving singular nonlinearities and the Laplace-Beltrami operator. The approach covers both the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Pierluigi Colli , Jürgen Sprekels

In this paper we study optimal control problems governed by a semilinear elliptic equation. The equation is nonmonotone due to the presence of a convection term, despite the monotonocity of the nonlinear term. The resulting operator is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Eduardo Casas , Mariano Mateos , Arnd Rösch

We consider a steady-state heat conduction problem $P$ for the Poisson equation with mixed boundary conditions in a bounded multidimensional domain $\Omega$. We also consider a family of problems $P_{\alpha}$ for the same Poisson equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Claudia M. Gariboldi , Domingo A. Tarzia

We study a non-local optimal control problem involving a linear, bond-based peridynamics model. In addition to existence and uniqueness of solutions to our problem, we investigate their behavior as the horizon parameter $\delta$, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Tadele Mengesha , Abner J. Salgado , Joshua M. Siktar

We investigate optimal control problems governed by the elliptic partial differential equation $-\Delta u=f$ subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions on a given domain $\Omega$. The control variable in this setting is the right-hand side…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Juan Casado-Díaz , Faustino Maestre

We consider a problem of optimal distribution of conductivities in a system governed by a non-local diffusion law. The problem stems from applications in optimal design and more specifically topology optimization. We propose a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Anton Evgrafov , Jose C Bellido

In this paper, we study optimal control problems of semilinear elliptic and parabolic equations. A tracking cost functional, quadratic in the control and state variables, is considered. No control constraints are imposed. We prove that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Eduardo Casas , Daniel Wachsmuth

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Wei Gong , Dongdong Liang

This work is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by a non-smooth quasilinear elliptic equation with a nonlinear coefficient in the principal part that is locally Lipschitz continuous and directionally but not G\^ateaux…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Christian Clason , Vu Huu Nhu , Arnd Rösch

In this paper we consider optimal control problems in the nonlocal function space framework of Bellido-2023, where there are two different parameters: a horizon parameter $\delta > 0$; and a fractional parameter $s \in (0, 1)$. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Javier Cueto , Joshua M. Siktar

This work addresses an optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic equation in two-dimensional space, characterized by an exponential nonlinearity and a singular source term. The source is modeled as a finite linear combination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Vu Huu Nhu

In this paper, we discuss the approximate controllability for control systems governed by stochastic evolution hemivariational inequalities in Hilbert spaces. The interest in studying this type of equation comes from its application in some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Bholanath Kumbhakar , Deeksha , Dwijendra Narain Pandey

We consider the inverse multiphase Stefan problem with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition on a bounded Lipschitz domain, where the density of the heat source is unknown in addition to the temperature and the phase transition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Ugur G. Abdulla , Bruno Poggi