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We propose and analyze reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimators for an optimal control problem that involves a nondifferentiable cost functional, the Poisson problem as state equation and control constraints. To approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Alejandro Allendes , Francisco Fuica , Enrique Otárola

In a previous work, we introduced a discretization scheme for a constrained optimal control problem involving the fractional Laplacian. For such a control problem, we derived optimal a priori error estimates that demand the convexity of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Harbir Antil , Enrique Otarola

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems subject to a semilinear elliptic partial differential equations. The cost functional contains a term that measures the size of the support of the control, which is the so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Eduardo Casas , Daniel Wachsmuth

We focus on the problem of optimal control of large-scale systems whose models are obtained by discretization of partial differential equations using the Finite Element (FE) or Finite Difference (FD) methods. The motivation for studying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Aleksandar Haber , Michel Verhaegen

We consider the finite element discretization of an optimal Dirichlet boundary control problem for the Laplacian, where the control is considered in $H^{1/2}(\Gamma)$. To avoid computing the latter norm numerically, we realize it using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Michael Karkulik

This work investigates an elliptic optimal control problem defined on uncertain domains and discretized by a fictitious domain finite element method and cut elements. Key ingredients of the study are to manage cases considering the usually…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Aikaterini Aretaki , Efthymios N. Karatzas

Recently the authors have studied a state and control constrained optimal control problem with fractional elliptic PDE as constraints. The goal of this paper is to continue that program forward and introduce an algorithm to solve such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Harbir Antil , Thomas S. Brown , Deepanshu Verma

We present a method to solve fractional optimal control problems, where the dynamic depends on integer and Caputo fractional derivatives. Our approach consists to approximate the initial fractional order problem with a new one that involves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

We study an optimization problem with SPDE constraints, which has the peculiarity that the control parameter $s$ is the $s$-th power of the diffusion operator in the state equation. Well-posedness of the state equation and differentiability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Carina Geldhauser , Enrico Valdinoci

A continuous optimal control problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality was considered in Boukrouche-Tarzia, Comput. Optim. Appl., 53 (2012), 375-392 where the control variable is the internal energy $g$. It was proved the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Mariela Olguín , Domingo A. Tarzia

In this paper we study existence, regularity, and approximation of solution to a fractional semilinear elliptic equation of order $s \in (0,1)$. We identify minimal conditions on the nonlinear term and the source which leads to existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-27 Harbir Antil , Johannes Pfefferer , Mahamadi Warma

In this paper we study the approximate controllability and existence of optimal control of impulsive fractional semilinear delay differential equations with non-local conditions. We use Sadovskii's fixed point theorem, semigroup theory of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-02-10 Lakshman Mahto , Syed Abbas

We study a bilinear OCP for an evolution equation governed by the fractional Laplacian of order $0 < s < 1$, incorporating a nonlocal time component modeled by an integral kernel. After establishing well-posedness of the problem, we analyze…

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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…

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We investigate an approach for the numerical solution of differential equations which is based on the perfect discretization of actions. Such perfect discretizations show up at the fixed points of renormalization group transformations. This…

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In this paper, we carry out the numerical analysis of a nonsmooth quasilinear elliptic optimal control problem, where the coefficient in the divergence term of the corresponding state equation is not differentiable with respect to the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Christian Clason , Vu Huu Nhu , Arnd Rösch

We consider an optimal control problem on a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2,$ governed by a parabolic convection--diffusion--reaction equation with pointwise control constraints. We follow the optimize--then--discretize approach,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Christos Pervolianakis

We consider a space-time finite element method on fully unstructured simplicial meshes for optimal sparse control of semilinear parabolic equations. The objective is a combination of a standard quadratic tracking-type functional including a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Fredi Tröltzsch , Huidong Yang

In this work, we analyse the discretisation of a recently proposed new Lagrangian approach to optimal control problems of affine-controlled second-order differential equations with cost functions quadratic in the controls. We propose exact…