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An optimal control problem subject to an elliptic obstacle problem is studied. We obtain a numerical approximation of this problem by discretising the PDE obtained via a Moreau--Yosida type penalisation. For the resulting discrete control…

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In this paper we derive a necessary optimality condition for a local optimal solution of some control problems. These optimal control problems are governed by a semi-linear Vettsel boundary value problem of a linear elliptic equation. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-04-08 Yousong Luo

In this paper we analyze the Schwarz alternating method for unconstrained elliptic optimal control problems. We discuss the convergence properties of the method in the continuous case first and then apply the arguments to the finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Wei Gong , Felix Kwok , Zhiyu Tan

We study the finite element approximation of the solid isotropic material with penalization method (SIMP) for the topology optimization problem of minimizing the compliance of a linearly elastic structure. To ensure the existence of a local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos

We would like to study the solution stability of a parametric control problem governed by semilinear elliptic equations with a mixed state-control constraint, where the cost function is nonconvex and the admissible set is unbounded. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Nguyen Hai Son , Tuan Anh Dao

In this work, we investigate the inverse problem of recovering a potential coefficient in an elliptic partial differential equation from the observations at deterministic sampling points in the domain subject to random noise. We employ a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Bangti Jin , Qimeng Quan , Wenlong Zhang

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Nicolae Cîndea , Enrique Fernandez-Cara , Arnaud Munch

We consider the problem of stochastic optimal control in the presence of an unknown disturbance. We characterize the disturbance via empirical characteristic functions, and employ a chance constrained approach. By exploiting properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Vignesh Sivaramakrishnan , Meeko M. K. Oishi

We derive error estimates for a linear-quadratic elliptic distributed optimal control problem with pointwise control constraints that can be applied to standard finite element methods and multiscale finite element methods.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Susanne C. Brenner , Li-yeng Sung

We consider the problem of approximating nonconvex quadratic optimization with ellipsoid constraints (ECQP). We show some SDP-based approximation bounds for special cases of (ECQP) can be improved by trivially applying the extened Pataki's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Yong Xia , Shu Wang , Zi Xu

This paper focuses on regularisation methods using models up to the third order to search for up to second-order critical points of a finite-sum minimisation problem. The variant presented belongs to the framework of [3]: it employs random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Stefania Bellavia , Gianmarco Gurioli , Benedetta Morini , Philippe L. Toint

This paper focuses on the quasi-optimality of an adaptive nonconforming finite element method for a distributed optimal control problem governed by the Stokes equation. The nonconforming lowest order Crouzeix-Raviart element and piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Tooba M. Shaikh , Asha K. Dond

We consider a class of stochastic optimal control problems with partial observation, and study their approximation by discrete-time control problems. We establish a convergence result by using weak convergence technique of Kushner and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Yunzhang Li , Xiaolu Tan , Shanjian Tang

We focus on optimal control problems governed by elliptic, quasilinear PDEs. Though there are various examples of such problems in the literature, we make an attempt at describing some general principles by dealing with three basic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Pablo Pedregal

In this work, we present numerical analysis for a distributed optimal control problem, with box constraint on the control, governed by a subdiffusion equation which involves a fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Bangti Jin , Buyang Li , Zhi Zhou

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 propose and analyze a perturbative regularization method to approximate quadratic optimization problems with finite-dimensional degeneracy. The original problem is first approximated by a regularized problem depending on a small positive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-16 C. G. Gebhardt , I. Romero

For the optimal control problem governed by elliptic equations with interfaces, we present a numerical method based on the Hansbo's Nitsche-XFEM. We followed the Hinze's variational discretization concept to discretize the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Tao Wang , Chaochao Yang , Xiaoping Xie

We derive a priori error estimates for Nitsche's method applied to elliptic problems on approximate domains. Such approximations arise, for example, in unfitted finite element methods, data-driven simulations, and evolving domain problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

This paper concerns the composite problem of minimizing the sum of a twice continuously differentiable function $f$ and a nonsmooth convex function. For this class of nonconvex and nonsmooth problems, by leveraging a practical inexactness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Ruyu Liu , Shaohua Pan , Yitian Qian