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Shape optimization problems constrained by variational inequalities (VI) are non-smooth and non-convex optimization problems. The non-smoothness arises due to the variational inequality constraint, which makes it challenging to derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Nico Goldammer , Volker H. Schulz , Kathrin Welker

We generalize the shape optimization problem for the existence of stable equilibrium configurations of nematic and cholesteric liquid crystal drops surrounded by an isotropic solution to include a broader family of admissible domains with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Alessandro Giacomini , Silvia Paparini

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 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

Many physical phenomena, governed by partial differential equations (PDEs), are second order in nature. This makes sense to pose the control on the second order derivatives of the field solution, in addition to zero and first order ones, to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-10-11 Rouhollah Tavakoli

In the present work we study the optimal control of an evolution equation with non-smooth dissipation. The solution mapping of this system is non-smooth and hence the analysis is quite challenging. Our approach is to regularize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Tobias Geiger , Daniel Wachsmuth

We consider a distributed optimal control problem subject to a parabolic evolution equation as constraint. The control will be considered in the energy norm of the anisotropic Sobolev space $[H_{0;,0}^{1,1/2}(Q)]^\ast$, such that the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Richard Löscher , Michael Reichelt , Olaf Steinbach

In this research, we investigate a general shape optimization problem in which the state equation is expressed using a nonlocal and nonlinear operator. We prove the existence of a minimum point for a functional $F$ defined on the family of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Ignacio Ceresa Dussel

PDE-constrained optimal control problems require regularisation to ensure well-posedness, introducing small perturbations that make the solutions challenging to approximate accurately. We propose a finite element approach that couples both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Jenny Power , Tristan Pryer

We investigate an optimization problem governed by an elliptic partial differential equation with uncertain parameters. We introduce a robust optimization framework that accounts for uncertain model parameters. The resulting non-linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Alessandro Alla , Michael Hinze , Philip Kolvenbach , Oliver Lass , Stefan Ulbrich

We consider an optimal control problem subject to the thin-film equation which is deduced from the Navier--Stokes equation. The PDE constraint lacks well-posedness for general right-hand sides due to possible degeneracies; state constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Markus Klein , Andreas Prohl

We study the optimal control of a rate-independent system that is driven by a convex, quadratic energy. Since the associated solution mapping is non-smooth, the analysis of such control problems is challenging. In order to derive optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Ulisse Stefanelli , Gerd Wachsmuth , Daniel Wachsmuth

This work presents a convex-optimization-based framework for analysis and control of nonlinear partial differential equations. The approach uses a particular weak embedding of the nonlinear PDE, resulting in a linear equation in the space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Milan Korda , Didier Henrion , Jean-Bernard Lasserre

In this paper we study a Dirichlet control problem for the Poisson equation, where the control is assumed to be piecewise constant function which is allowed to take M > 1 different values. The space of admissible Dirichlet controls is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Kevin Sturm

We consider a class of infinite-dimensional singular stochastic control problems. These can be thought of as spatial monotone follower problems and find applications in spatial models of production and climate transition. Let…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Salvatore Federico , Giorgio Ferrari , Frank Riedel , Michael Röckner

Regularization robust preconditioners for PDE-constrained optimization problems have been successfully developed. These methods, however, typically assume that observation data is available throughout the entire domain of the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Kent-André Mardal , Bjørn Fredrik Nielsen , Magne Nordaas

We investigate $C^1$ finite element methods for one dimensional elliptic distributed optimal control problems with pointwise constraints on the derivative of the state formulated as fourth order variational inequalities for the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Susanne C. Brenner , Li-Yeng Sung , Winnifried Wollner

This paper sets up an approach for shape optimization problems constrained by variational inequalities (VI) in an appropriate shape space. In contrast to classical VI, where no explicit dependence on the domain is given, VI constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Tim Suchan , Volker Schulz , Kathrin Welker

The paper addresses a new class of optimal control problems governed by the dissipative and discontinuous differential inclusion of the sweeping/Moreau process while using controls to determine the best shape of moving convex polyhedra in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Giovanni Colombo , René Henrion , Nguyen Dinh Hoang , Boris S. Mordukhovich

In this paper we analyze the relaxed form of a shape optimization problem with state equation $\{{array}{ll} -div \big(a(x)Du\big)=f\qquad\hbox{in}D \hbox{boundary conditions on}\partial D. {array}.$ The new fact is that the term $f$ is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-02-16 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Faustino Maestre