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This work addresses an optimal control problem constrained by a degenerate kinetic equation of parabolic-hyperbolic type. Using a hypocoercivity framework we establish the well-posedness of the problem and demonstrate that the optimal…
In this paper, we study an optimal control problem for a cascade of hydroelectric power plants with reversible turbines and uncontrolled spillways. The system dynamics are governed by a linear control model subject to path constraints. The…
We derive necessary conditions for optimality in control problems governed by hyperbolic partial differential equations in Goursat-Darboux form. The conditions consist of a set of Hamiltonian equations in Goursat form, side conditions for…
We present necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for finite time optimal control problems for a class of hybrid systems described by linear complementarity models. Although these optimal control problems are difficult in general…
We study minimal time strategies for the treatment of pollution of large volumes, such as lakes or natural reservoirs, with the help of an autonomous bioreactor. The control consists in feeding the bioreactor from the resource, the clean…
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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…
Discrete-time robust optimal control problems generally take a min-max structure over continuous variable spaces, which can be difficult to solve in practice. In this paper, we extend the class of such problems that can be solved through a…
In this work, we address some optimal control problems related to the evolution of two isothermal, incompressible, immisible fluids in a two dimensional bounded domain. A distributed optimal control problem is formulated as the minimization…
We study a control-constrained optimal control problem governed by a semilinear elliptic equation. The control acts in a bilinear way on the boundary, and can be interpreted as a heat transfer coefficient. A detailed study of the state…
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We study the optimal control of storage which is used for arbitrage, i.e. for buying a commodity when it is cheap and selling it when it is expensive. Our particular concern is with the management of energy systems, although the results are…
This work develops scientific computing techniques to further the exploration of using boundary control alone to optimize mixing in Stokes flows. The theoretical foundation including mathematical model and the optimality conditions for…
Motivated by the control of invasive biological populations, we consider a class of optimization problems for moving sets $t\mapsto \Omega(t)\subset\mathbb{R}^2$. Given an initial set $\Omega_0$, the goal is to minimize the area of the…
Here we derive a nonsmooth maximum principle for optimal control problems with both state and mixed constraints. Crucial to our development is a convexity assumption on the "velocity set". The approach consists of applying known…
We consider a nonlinear system, affine with respect to an unbounded control $u$ which is allowed to range in a closed cone. To this system we associate a Bolza type minimum problem, with a Lagrangian having sublinear growth with respect to…
We study a model for the exploitation of renewable stocks developed in Clark et al. (Econometrica 47 (1979), 25-47). In this particular control problem, the control law contains a measurable and an impulsive control component. We formulate…
In this paper we consider optimal control of nonlinear time-dependent fluid structure interactions. To determine a time-dependent control variable a BFGS algorithm is used, whereby gradient information is computed via a dual problem. To…
A numerical study of an optimal control formulation for a shape optimization problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality is performed. The shape optimization problem is reformulated as a boundary control problem in a fixed…