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Solving optimal control problems for transport-dominated partial differential equations (PDEs) can become computationally expensive, especially when dealing with high-dimensional systems. To overcome this challenge, we focus on developing…

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With the advent of modern data collection and storage technologies, data-driven approaches have been developed for discovering the governing partial differential equations (PDE) of physical problems. However, in the extant works the model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-28 Haibin Chang , Dongxiao Zhang

This paper is concerned with the state-constrained optimal control of the three-dimensional thermistor problem, a fully quasilinear coupled system of a parabolic and elliptic PDE with mixed boundary conditions. This system models the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Hannes Meinlschmidt , Christian Meyer , Joachim Rehberg

We investigate optimal control problems governed by the elliptic partial differential equation $-\Delta u=f$ subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions on a given domain $\Omega$. The control variable in this setting is the right-hand side…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Juan Casado-Díaz , Faustino Maestre

The purpose of this work is to study an optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic partial differential equation with a linear combination of Dirac measures as a forcing term; the control variable corresponds to the amplitude of such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Enrique Otarola

In variational assimilation, the most probable state of a dynamical system under Gaussian assumptions for the prior and likelihood can be found by solving a least-squares minimization problem . In recent years, we have seen the popularity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Shaerdan Shataer , Amos S. Lawless , Nancy K. Nichols

In this paper, we develop an asymptotic expansion-regularization (AER) method for inverse source problems in two-dimensional nonlinear and nonstationary singularly perturbed partial differential equations (PDEs). The key idea of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Dmitrii Chaikovskii , Aleksei Liubavin , Ye Zhang

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by a non-smooth semilinear elliptic equation. We show that the control-to-state mapping is directionally differentiable and precisely characterize its Bouligand…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Constantin Christof , Christian Clason , Christian Meyer , Stephan Walther

Time-fractional parabolic equations with a Caputo time derivative are considered. For such equations, we explore and further develop the new methodology of the a-posteriori error estimation and adaptive time stepping proposed in [7]. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-27 Sebastian Franz , Natalia Kopteva

This paper proposes an optimal control problem for a parabolic equation with a nonlocal nonlinearity. The system is described by a parabolic equation involving a nonlinear term that depends on the solution and its integral over the domain.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Cyrille Kenne , Landry Djomegne , Gisèle Mophou

Data assimilation (DA) for systems governed by partial differential equations (PDE) aims to reconstruct full spatiotemporal fields from sparse high-fidelity (HF) observations while respecting physical constraints. While full-grid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Dohyun Bu , Chanho Kim , Seokun Choi , Jong-Seok Lee

In practical applications, the efficacy of a control algorithm relies critically on the accurate knowledge of the parameters and states of the underlying system. However, obtaining these quantities in practice is often challenging. Adaptive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Anchita Dey , Soutrik Bandyopadhyay , Shubhendu Bhasin

In this paper, we consider a class of optimal control problems governed by 1D parabolic state-systems of KWC types with dynamic boundary conditions. The state-systems are based on a phase-field model of grain boundary motion, proposed in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Shodai Kubota , Ryota Nakayashiki , Ken Shirakawa

This paper considers the problem of determining an optimal control action based on observed data. We formulate the problem assuming that the system can be modelled by a nonlinear state-space model, but where the model parameters, state and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-02 Johannes N. Hendriks , James R. Z. Holdsworth , Adrian G. Wills , Thomas B. Schon , Brett Ninness

A 4D-Var data assimilation technique is applied to a ORCA-2 configuration of the NEMO in order to identify the optimal parametrization of the boundary conditions on the lateral boundaries as well as on the bottom and on the surface of the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Eugene Kazantsev

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

The problem of suboptimality under bounded disturbances for the adaptive systems based on speed-graadient approach is discussed. A formulation of the estimated optimality of nonlinear nonlinearly parametrized adaptive control systems is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Alexander Fradkov

Data assimilation is an iterative approach to the problem of estimating the state of a dynamical system using both current and past observations of the system together with a model for the system's time evolution. Rather than solving the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Brian R. Hunt , Eric J. Kostelich , Istvan Szunyogh

This article discusses numerical analysis of the distributed optimal control problem governed by the von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n equations defined on a polygonal domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$. The state and adjoint variables are discretised using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Sudipto Chowdhury , Asha K. Dond , Neela Nataraj , Devika Shylaja