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Motivated by many applications, optimal control problems with integer controls have recently received a significant attention. Some state-of-the-art work uses perimeter-regularization to derive stationarity conditions and trust-region…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Harbir Antil , Paul Manns

This paper studies an optimal control problem governed by a semilinear elliptic equation, in which the control acts in a multiplicative or bilinear way as the reaction coefficient of the equation. We focus on the numerical discretization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Eduardo Casas , Konstantinos Chrysafinos , Mariano Mateos

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems governed by the parabolic interface equation, in which the control acts on the interface. The solution to this problem exhibits low global regularity due to the jump of the coefficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Xindan Zhang , Jianping Zhao , Yanren Hou

This paper investigates the asymptotic analysis of an optimal control problem (OCP) posed on a high-contrast elastic medium with soft periodic inclusions, governed by a semilinear elasticity system with a nonlocal term. The domain consists…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Amartya Chakrabortty , Abu Sufian

This work considers the nodal finite element approximation of peridynamics, in which the nodal displacements satisfy the peridynamics equation at each mesh node. For the nonlinear bond-based peridynamics model, it is shown that, under the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Prashant K. Jha , Patrick Diehl , Robert Lipton

This article addresses the problem of data-driven numerical optimal control for unknown nonlinear systems. In our scenario, we suppose to have the possibility of performing multiple experiments (or simulations) on the system. Experiments…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Marco Borghesi , Lorenzo Sforni , Giuseppe Notarstefano

State-based peridynamic models provide an important extension of bond-based models that allow the description of general linearly elastic materials. Meshfree discretizations of these nonlocal models are attractive due to their ability to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Nathaniel Trask , Benjamin Huntington , David Littlewood

Optimal control of the singular nonlinear parabolic PDE which is a distributional formulation of multidimensional and multiphase Stefan-type free boundary problem is analyzed. Approximating sequence of finite-dimensional optimal control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Ugur G. Abdulla , Evan Cosgrove

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem subject to the $H^1$-critical defocusing semilinear wave equation on a smooth and bounded domain in three spatial dimensions. Due to the criticality of the nonlinearity in the wave…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Karl Kunisch , Hannes Meinlschmidt

The purpose of this work is to study an optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic partial differential equation with a linear combination of Dirac measures as a forcing term; the control variable corresponds to the amplitude of such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Enrique Otarola

This paper deals with the development and analysis of novel time-optimal point-to-point model predictive control concepts for nonlinear systems. Recent approaches in the literature apply a time transformation, however, which do not maintain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Christoph Rösmann , Artemi Makarow , Torsten Bertram

The paper presents an approach to studying optimal control problems in the space of nonnegative measures with dynamics given by a nonlocal balance law. This approach relies on transforming the balance law into a continuity equation in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Nikolay Pogodaev , Maxim Staritsyn

This article proposes a new approach based on finite-horizon parameterizing manifolds (PMs) for the design of low-dimensional suboptimal controllers to optimal control problems of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) of parabolic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-19 Mickaël D. Chekroun , Honghu Liu

In this paper error analysis for finite element discretizations of Dirichlet boundary control problems is developed. For the first time, optimal discretization error estimates are established in the case of three dimensional polyhedral and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Johannes Pfefferer , Boris Vexler

In this paper we consider a parabolic optimal control problem with a Dirac type control with moving point source in two space dimensions. We discretize the problem with piecewise constant functions in time and continuous piecewise linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler

We consider an elliptic optimal control problem where the objective functional contains evaluations of the state at a finite number of points. In particular, we use a fidelity term that encourages the state to take certain values at these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-19 C. Brett , A. S. Dedner , C. M. Elliott

An abstract framework guaranteeing the continuous differentiability of local value functions on $H^1(\Omega)$ associated with optimal stabilization problems subject to abstract semilinear parabolic equations in the presence of norm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Karl Kunisch , Buddhika Priyasad

We consider a controlled state equation of parabolic type on the halfline $(0,+\infty)$ with boundary conditions of Dirichlet type in which the unknown is equal to the sum of the control and of a white noise in time. We study finite horizon…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-10 Federica Masiero

We will investigate the value and inactive region of optimal stopping and one-sided singular control problems by focusing on two fundamental ratios. We shall see that these ratios unambiguously characterize the solution, although usually…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Pekka Matomäki

In this paper we consider 2D nonlocal diffusion models with a finite nonlocal horizon parameter $\delta$ characterizing the range of nonlocal interactions, and consider the treatment of Neumann-like boundary conditions that have proven…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Huaiqian You , Xin Yang Lu , Nathaniel Trask , Yue Yu