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A new method of deriving comparative statics information using generalized compensated derivatives is presented which yields constraint-free semidefiniteness results for any differentiable, constrained optimization problem. More generally,…

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In this paper we perform the rigorous derivation of the topological derivative for optimization problems constrained by a class of quasi-linear elliptic transmission problems. In the case of quasi-linear constraints, techniques using…

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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…

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In this work, we explore the state-space formulation of a network process to recover, from partial observations, the underlying network topology that drives its dynamics. To do so, we employ subspace techniques borrowed from system…

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We introduce a theoretical framework for differentiable surface evolution that allows discrete topology changes through the use of topological derivatives for variational optimization of image functionals. While prior methods for inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ishit Mehta , Manmohan Chandraker , Ravi Ramamoorthi

We introduce a unified sensitivity concept for shape and topological perturbations and perform the sensitivity analysis for a discretized PDE-constrained design optimization problem in two space dimensions. We assume that the design is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Peter Gangl , Michael H. Gfrerer

Shape optimization models with one or more shapes are considered in this chapter. Of particular interest for applications are problems in which where a so-called shape functional is constrained by a partial differential equation (PDE)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

We consider a shape optimization problem written in the optimal control form: the governing operator is the $p$-Laplacian in the Euclidean space $\R^d$, the cost is of an integral type, and the control variable is the domain of the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Francesco Paolo Maiale , Bozhidar Velichkov

Topology optimization is concerned with the identification of optimal shapes of deformable bodies with respect to given target functionals. The focus of this paper is on a topology optimization problem for a time-evolving elastoplastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Stefano Almi , Ulisse Stefanelli

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by a non-smooth semilinear elliptic equation. We show that the control-to-state mapping is directionally differentiable and precisely characterize its Bouligand…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Constantin Christof , Christian Clason , Christian Meyer , Stephan Walther

We present a general numerical approach to shape optimization with state constraints for 2-dimensional geometries, without relaxing the constraints. To do this we reformulate the problem on a fixed reference domain using a conformal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Christian Leithäuser , René Pinnau , Robert Feßler

This paper studies a class of continuous-time scalar-state stochastic Linear-Quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem with the linear control constraints. Applying the state separation theorem induced from its special structure, we develop…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-06-12 Weiping Wu , Jianjun Gao , Junguo Lu , Xun Li

We develop mathematical models for shape design and topology optimization in structural contact problems involving friction between elastic and rigid bodies. The governing mechanical constraint is a nonlinear, non-smooth, and non-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Yixin Tan , Fang Feng , Shengfeng Zhu

This work recasts time-dependent optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations in a Dynamic Mode Decomposition with control framework. Indeed, since the numerical solution of such problems requires a lot of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Eleonora Donadini , Maria Strazzullo , Marco Tezzele , Gianluigi Rozza

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

This work deals with shape optimization for contact mechanics. More specifically, the linear elasticity model is considered under the small deformations hypothesis, and the elastic body is assumed to be in contact (sliding or with Tresca…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Bastien Chaudet-Dumas

We consider general shape optimization problems governed by Dirichlet boundary value problems. The proposed approach may be extended to other boundary conditions as well. It is based on a recent representation result for implicitly defined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba

Controlling the shapes of surfaces provides a novel way to direct self-assembly of colloidal particles on those surfaces and may be useful for material design. This motivates the investigation of an optimal control problem for surface shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-10 Harbir Antil , Shawn W. Walker

The present contribution investigates shape optimisation problems for a class of semilinear elliptic variational inequalities with Neumann boundary conditions. Sensitivity estimates and material derivatives are firstly derived in an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Christian Heinemann , Kevin Sturm

We consider the problem of topological linearization of smooth (C infinity or real analytic) control systems, i.e. of their local equivalence to a linear controllable system via point-wise transformations on the state and the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-14 Laurent Baratchart , Jean-Baptiste Pomet