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In this article, we develop a posteriori error analysis of a nonconforming finite element method for a linear quadratic elliptic distributed optimal control problem with two different set of constraints, namely (i) integral state constraint…

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We propose and investigate a novel solution strategy to efficiently and accurately compute approximate solutions to semilinear optimal control problems, focusing on the optimal control of phase field formulations of geometric evolution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-01 F. Yang , C. Venkataraman , V. Styles , A. Madzvamuse

The purpose of this work is the design and analysis of a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator for the so-called pointwise tracking optimal control problem. This linear-quadratic optimal control problem entails the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Richard Rankin , Abner J. Salgado

Space-time finite element discretizations of time-optimal control problems governed by linear parabolic PDEs and subject to pointwise control constraints are considered. Optimal a priori error estimates are obtained for the control variable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Lucas Bonifacius , Konstantin Pieper , Boris Vexler

We propose and analyze an a posteriori error estimator for a PDE-constrained optimization problem involving a nondifferentiable cost functional, fractional diffusion, and control-constraints. We realize fractional diffusion as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Enrique Otarola

In this paper we study the approximation of an optimal control problem for linear para\-bolic PDEs with model order reduction based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD-MOR). POD-MOR is a Galerkin approach where the basis functions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Alessandro Alla , Carmen Graessle , Michael Hinze

We present the mathematical framework of a Domain Decomposition (DD) aproach based on Parallel-in-Time methods (PinT-based approach) for solving the 4D-Var Data Assimilation (DA) model. The main outcome of the proposed DD PinT-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Luisa D'Amore , Rosalba Cacciapuoti

This study demonstrates how the incremental 4D-Var data assimilation method can be applied efficiently preconditione d in an application to an oceanographic problem. The approach consists in performing a few iterations of the reduced-order…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-09-19 Céline Robert , Eric Blayo , Jacques Verron

Variational data assimilation in continuous time is revisited. The central techniques applied in this paper are in part adopted from the theory of optimal nonlinear control. Alternatively, the investigated approach can be considered as a…

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In this paper we study the optimal control of a class of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations which have nonlinear constituents that are only accessible by data and are approximated by nonsmooth ReLU neural networks. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-24 Guozhi Dong , Michael Hintermüller , Kostas Papafitsoros , Kathrin Völkner

We consider an abstract framework for the numerical solution of optimal control problems (OCPs) subject to partial differential equations (PDEs). Examples include not only the distributed control of elliptic PDEs such as the Poisson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

We consider an optimal control problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality of the second kind. The problem is discretized by linear finite elements for the state and a variational discrete approach for the control. Based on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Christian Meyer , Monika Weymuth

For parabolic PDEs, we present a new certainty equivalence-based adaptive boundary control scheme with a least-squares identifier of an event-triggering type, where the triggering is based on the size of the regulation error (as opposed to…

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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…

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This paper studies a kind of minimal time control problems related to the exact synchronization for a controlled linear system of parabolic equations. Each problem depends on two parameters: the bound of controls and the initial state. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Lijuan Wang , Qishu Yan

We propose and analyze a posteriori error estimators for an optimal control problem that involves an elliptic partial differential equation as state equation and a control variable that enters the state equation as a coefficient; pointwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Francisco Fuica , Enrique Otarola

Variational data assimilation estimates the dynamical system states by minimizing a cost function that fits the numerical models with the observational data. Although four-dimensional variational assimilation (4D-Var) is widely used, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yiming Yang , Xiaoyuan Cheng , Daniel Giles , Sibo Cheng , Yi He , Xiao Xue , Boli Chen , Yukun Hu

We consider finite element solutions to optimization problems, where the state depends on the possibly constrained control through a linear partial differential equation. Basing upon a reduced and rescaled optimality system, we derive a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Fernando Gaspoz , Christian Kreuzer , Andreas Veeser , Winnifried Wollner

We adopt the integral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and analyze an optimal control problem for a fractional semilinear elliptic partial differential equation (PDE); control constraints are also considered. We establish the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Enrique Otarola