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In this paper we use a Stackelberg-Nash strategy to show the local null controllability of a parabolic equation where the diffusion coefficient is the product of a degenerate function in space and a nonlocal term. We consider one control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Juan Límaco , João Carlos Barreira , Suerlan Silva , Luis P. Yapu

In this paper we consider a problem of initial data identification from the final time observation for homogeneous parabolic problems. It is well-known that such problems are exponentially ill-posed due to the strong smoothing property of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-06 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler , Daniel Walter

The aim of this work is the numerical homogenization of a parabolic problem with several time and spatial scales using the heterogeneous multiscale method. We replace the actual cell problem with an alternate one, using Dirichlet boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Daniel Eckhardt , Barbara Verfürth

In this paper, we investigate the null controllability of nonlinear wave systems. Initially, we employ a combination of the Galerkin method and a fixed point theorem to establish the null controllability for semi-linear wave equations with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Yan Cui , Peng Lu , Yi Zhou

We prove a generalization of Noether's theorem for optimal control problems defined on time scales. Particularly, our results can be used for discrete-time, quantum, and continuous-time optimal control problems. The generalization involves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-04 Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi

Optimal control of the singular nonlinear parabolic PDE which is a distributional formulation of multidimensional and multiphase Stefan-type free boundary problem is analyzed. Approximating sequence of finite-dimensional optimal control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Ugur G. Abdulla , Evan Cosgrove

This paper studies the continuous-time dynamics generated by control-theoretic Lagrangian methods for equality-constrained optimization. In particular, we consider dynamics induced by proportional-integral and feedback linearization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Simone Pirrera , Francesco Ripa , Daniele Astolfi , Vito Cerone , Sophie M. Fosson , Diego Regruto

We study the Stackelberg-Nash null controllability of a coupled system governed by two linear forward stochastic parabolic equations. The system includes one leader control localized in a subset of the domain, two additional leader controls…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Abdellatif Elgrou , Omar Oukdach

In this article we study the internal controllability of 1D linear hyperbolic balance laws when the number of controls is equal to the number of state variables. The controls are supported in space in an arbitrary open subset. Our main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Long Hu , Guillaume Olive

We introduce in this document a direct method allowing to solve numerically inverse type problems for linear parabolic equations. We consider the reconstruction of the full solution of the parabolic equation posed in $\Omega\times (0,T)$ -…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-11 Arnaud Munch , Diego Souza

We study the null controllability for a degenerate/singular wave equation with drift in non divergence form. In particular, considering a control localized on the non degenerate boundary point, we provide some conditions for the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Genni Fragnelli , Dimitri Mugnai , Amine Sbai

In this paper, we recover the boundary null controllability for the degenerate heat equation by analyzing the asymptotic behavior of an eligible family of state-control pairs $((u_{\varepsilon}, h_{\varepsilon}))_{\varepsilon >0}$ solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Bruno Sérgio V. Araújo , Reginaldo Demarque , Luiz Viana

In this paper, we study approximate and exact controllability of the linear difference equation $x(t) = \sum\_{j=1}^N A\_j x(t - \Lambda\_j) + B u(t)$ in $L^2$, with $x(t) \in \mathbb C^d$ and $u(t) \in \mathbb C^m$, using as a basic tool a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Yacine Chitour , Guilherme Mazanti , Mario Sigalotti

In this paper, we are concerned with the internal control of a class of one-dimensional nonlinear parabolic systems with nonlocal and weakly degenerate diffusion coefficients. Our main theorem establishes a local null controllability result…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-11 R. Demarque , J. Límaco , L. Viana

In the theory and practice of inverse problems for partial differential equations (PDEs) much attention is paid to the problem of the identification of coefficients from some additional information. This work deals with the problem of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-04-23 P. N. Vabishchevich , V. I. Vasil'ev

Given a finite-dimensional time continuous control system and $\varepsilon>0$, we address the question of the existence of controls that maintain the corresponding state trajectories in the $\varepsilon$-neighborhood of any prescribed path…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Manuel Rissel , Marius Tucsnak

In this paper we investigate infinite horizon optimal control problems for parametrized partial differential equations. We are interested in feedback control via dynamic programming equations which is well-known to suffer from the curse of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Alessandro Alla , Bernard Haasdonk , Andreas Schmidt

We propose a numerical method to approximate the exact averaged boundary control of a family of wave equations depending on an unknown parameter sigma. More precisely the control, independent of sigma, that drives an initial data to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Mouna Abdelli , Carlos Castro

In this paper, we focus on two types of degenerate partial differential equations: a degenerate elliptic equation and a degenerate parabolic equation. Significantly, both categories are characterized by the same principal operator. To…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Bao-Zhu Guo , Dong-Hui Yang , Jie Zhong

We consider the internal control of linear parabolic equations through on-off shape controls, i.e., controls of the form $M(t)\chi_{\omega(t)}$ with $M(t) \geq 0$ and $\omega(t)$ with a prescribed maximal measure. We establish small-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Camille Pouchol , Emmanuel Trélat , Christophe Zhang