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Solving parabolic optimal control problems can be inherently challenging in the field of science and engineering, especially with constraints on the nonsmooth distributed control. Motivated by the extensive applicability of the alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Haiming Song , Jinda Yang , Yuran Yang , Jianhua Yuan

This article is devoted to studying the null controllability of evolution equations with memory terms. The problem is challenging not only because the state equation contains memory terms but also because the classical controllability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-17 F. W. Chaves-Silva , X. Zhang , E. Zuazua

We prove the null controllability of a one dimensional degenerate parabolic equation with drift and a singular potential. We study the case the potential arises at the left end point and the weighted Dirichlet boundary control is located at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-03 Leandro Galo-Mendoza , Marcos López-García

We study a control problem governed by a semilinear parabolic equation. The control is a measure that acts as the kernel of a possibly nonlocal time delay term and the functional includes a non-differentiable term with the measure-norm of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Eduardo Casas , Mariano Mateos , Fredi Tröltzsch

Controlled Lagrangian and matching techniques are developed for the stabilization of relative equilibria and equilibria of discrete mechanical systems with symmetry as well as broken symmetry. Interesting new phenomena arise in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anthony M. Bloch , Melvin Leok , Jerrold E. Marsden , Dmitry V. Zenkov

We introduce a method for the fast numerical approximation of linear, second-order parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs for short) with time-independent coefficients based on model order reduction techniques and the Laplace…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Fernando Henríquez , Jan S. Hesthaven

We are concerned about the controllability of a general linear hyperbolic system of the form $\partial_t w (t, x) = \Sigma(x) \partial_x w (t, x) + \gamma C(x) w(t, x) $ ($\gamma \in \mR$) in one space dimension using boundary controls on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Jean-Michel Coron , Hoai-Minh Nguyen

In this article we consider a control problem of a linear Euler-Bernoulli damped beam equation with potential in dimension one with periodic boundary conditions. We derive a new Carleman estimate for an adjoint of the equation under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Sourav Mitra

In this paper, we prove the null controllability of a one-dimensional fourth-order degenerate parabolic equation with a singular potential. Here, we analyze cases where boundary control conditions are applied at the left endpoint. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Leandro Galo-Mendoza

This article investigates the exact controllability of three-dimensional stochastic Maxwell equations, a coupled system comprising two stochastic partial differential equations. The research establishes the observability inequality for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Liying Sun , Xiaohan Wang , Yongyi Yu

Although there is a substantial body of literature on control and optimization problems for parabolic and hyperbolic systems, the specific problem of controlling and optimizing the coefficients of the associated operators within such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Alain Bensoussan , Minh-Binh Tran , Bangjie Wang

We consider a fully-discrete approximations of 1-D heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions for which we provide a controllability result. The proof of this result is based on a relaxed observability inequality for the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Rodrigo Lecaros , Roberto Morales , Ariel Pérez , Sebastián Zamorano

This paper deals with the hierarchical control of the parabolic equation.We use Stackelberg{Nash strategies. As usual, we consider one leader and two followers. To each leader we associate a Nash equilibrium corresponding to a bi-objective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-03 M. R. Nuñez-Chávez , J. Límaco

The goal of this paper is to analyze the pointwise controllability properties of a one-dimensional degenerate/singular equation. We prove the conditions that characterize approximate and null controllability. Besides, a numerical simulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Salah Eddargani , Amine Sbai

In this paper, we consider forward stochastic nonlinear parabolic equations, with a control localized in the drift term. Under suitable assumptions, we prove the small-time global null-controllability, with a truncated nonlinearity. We also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Victor Hernandez-Santamaria , Kevin Le Balc'h , Liliana Peralta

We consider variational discretization of a parabolic optimal control problem governed by space-time measure controls. For the state discretization we use a Petrov-Galerkin method employing piecewise constant states and piecewise linear and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-25 Evelyn Herberg , Michael Hinze , Henrik Schumacher

We introduce an approximation method to solve an optimal control problem via the Lagrange dual of its weak formulation. It is based on a sum-of-squares representation of the Hamiltonian, and extends a previous method from polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Eloïse Berthier , Justin Carpentier , Alessandro Rudi , Francis Bach

The main purpose of this paper is to apply the notion of hierarchical control to a coupled degenerate non linear parabolic equations. We use the Stackelberg-Nash strategy with one leader and two followers. The followers solve a Nash…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Landry Djomegne , Cyrille Kenne , René Dorville , Pascal Zongo

In this paper we consider a parabolic optimal control problem with a Dirac type control with moving point source in two space dimensions. We discretize the problem with piecewise constant functions in time and continuous piecewise linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler

This paper concerns with the hierarchical control of the semilinear parabolic equations with interior degeneracy. By a Stackelberg-Nash strategy, we consider the linear and semilinear system with one leader and two followers. First, for any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Hang Gao , Wei Yang , Muming Zhang