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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…
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In this paper we discuss the optimal control of a quasilinear parabolic state equation. Its form is leaned on the kind of problems arising for example when controlling the anisotropic Allen-Cahn equation as a model for crystal growth.…
In this article a special class of nonlinear optimal control problems involving a bilinear term in the boundary condition is studied. These kind of problems arise for instance in the identification of an unknown space-dependent Robin…
This work proposes and analyzes a fully discrete numerical scheme for solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation, which achieves fourth-order spatial accuracy and third-order temporal accuracy.Spatially, fourth-order accuracy is…
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We consider the discretization of a class of nonlinear parabolic equations by discontinuous Galerkin time-stepping methods and establish a priori as well as conditional a posteriori error estimates. Our approach is motivated by the error…
Optimal Dirichlet boundary control for a fractional/normal evolution with a final observation is considered. The unique existence of the solution and the first-order optimality condition of the optimal control problem are derived. The…
We consider parabolic evolution equations with Lipschitz continuous and strongly monotone spatial operators. By introducing an additional variable, we construct an equivalent system where the operator is a Lipschitz continuous mapping from…