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The present study investigates a linear-quadratic Dirichlet control problem governed by a non-coercive elliptic equation posed on a possibly non-convex polygonal domain. Tikhonov regularization is carried out in an energy seminorm. The…

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We present the Dirichlet-Neumann (DN) and Neumann-Neumann (NN) methods applied to the optimal control problems arising from elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) under the $H^{-1}$ regularization. We use the Lagrange multiplier…

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In this paper we present a finite element analysis for a Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by the Stokes equation. The Dirichlet control is considered in a convex closed subset of the energy space $\mathbf{H}^1(\Omega).$ Most of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Thirupathi Gudi , Ramesh Ch. Sau

We consider an optimal control problem governed by a one-dimensional elliptic equation that involves univariate functions of bounded variation as controls. For the discretization of the state equation we use linear finite elements and for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Dominik Hafemeyer , Florian Mannel , Ira Neitzel , Boris Vexler

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems governed by semilinear elliptic variational inequalities involving constraints on the state, and more precisely the obstacle problem. Since we adopt a numerical point of view, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-10 El Hassene Osmani , Mounir Haddou , Naceurdine Bensalem

We propose and analyze a new discretization technique for a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving the fractional powers of a symmetric and uniformly elliptic second oder operator; control constraints are considered. Since these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Enrique Otarola

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Pedro Merino , Alexander Nenjer

We propose, analyze, and test new iterative solvers for large-scale systems of linear algebraic equations arising from the finite element discretization of reduced optimality systems defining the finite element approximations to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

We consider the finite element discretization and the iterative solution of singularly perturbed elliptic reaction-diffusion equations in three-dimensional computational domains. These equations arise from the optimality conditions for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

In this paper, we consider a class of time-optimal control problems governed by linear parabolic equations with mixed control-state constraints and end-point constraints, and without Tikhonov regularization term in the objective function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Huynh Khanh , Bui Trong Kien

We study a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving a parabolic equation with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative of orders $s \in (0,1)$ and $\gamma \in (0,1]$, respectively. The spatial fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-02 Harbir Antil , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

We consider a space-time finite element method for the numerical solution of a distributed tracking-type optimal control problem subject to the heat equation with state constraints. The cost or regularization term is formulated in an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Richard Löscher , Michael Reichelt , Olaf Steinbach

We consider an optimal control problem that entails the minimization of a nondifferentiable cost functional, fractional diffusion as state equation and constraints on the control variable. We provide existence, uniqueness and regularity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Enrique Otárola , Abner J. Salgado

We consider a numerical approximation of a linear quadratic control problem constrained by the stochastic heat equation with non-homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. This involves a combination of distributed and boundary control, as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Peter Benner , Tony Stillfjord , Christoph Trautwein

We propose and analyze a monotone finite element method for an elliptic distributed optimal control problem constrained by a convection-diffusion-reaction equation in the convection-dominated regime. The method is based on the edge-averaged…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 SeongHee Jeong , Seulip Lee , Sijing Liu

We consider a linear-quadratic elliptic optimal control problem with point evaluations of the state variable in the cost functional. The state variable is discretized by conforming linear finite elements. For control discretization, three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Niklas Behringer , Dominik Meidner , Boris Vexler

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 proposes a nonlinear finite element method whose nodal values preserve bounds known for the exact solution. The discrete problem involves a nonlinear projection operator mapping arbitrary nodal values into bound-preserving ones…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Gabriel Barrenechea , Emmanuil Georgoulis , Tristan Pryer , Andreas Veeser

In this paper, we propose a Galerkin finite element method for the elliptic optimal control problem governed by the Riesz space-fractional PDEs on 2D domains with control variable being discretized by variational discretization technique.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Xiaogang Zhu

We propose, analyze, and test new robust iterative solvers for systems of linear algebraic equations arising from the space-time finite element discretization of reduced optimality systems defining the approximate solution of hyperbolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang