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In this paper we introduce a new notion of optimal control, or source identification in inverse, problems with fractional parabolic PDEs as constraints. This new notion allows a source/control placement outside the domain where the PDE is…

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We consider the optimal control problem of a general nonlinear spatio-temporal system described by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Theory and algorithms for control of spatio-temporal systems are of rising interest among the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Ethan N. Evans , Oswin So , Andrew P. Kendall , Guan-Horng Liu , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We propose and analyze a new discretization technique for a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving the fractional powers of a symmetric and uniformly elliptic second oder operator; control constraints are considered. Since these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Enrique Otarola

We adopt the integral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and study an optimal control problem on Lipschitz domains that involves a fractional elliptic partial differential equation (PDE) as state equation and a control variable…

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In this work, we analyze Parametrized Advection-Dominated distributed Optimal Control Problems with random inputs in a Reduced Order Model (ROM) context. All the simulations are initially based on a finite element method (FEM)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Fabio Zoccolan , Maria Strazzullo , Gianluigi Rozza

In this paper, we develop regularized discrete least squares collocation and finite volume methods for solving two-dimensional nonlinear time-dependent partial differential equations on irregular domains. The solution is approximated using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Fanhai Zeng , Ian Turner , Kevin Burrage , Stephen J. Wright

The paper presents results about strong metric subregularity of the optimality mapping associated with the system of first-order necessary optimality conditions for a problem of optimal control of a semilinear parabolic equation. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Alberto Domínguez Corella , Nicolai Jork , Vladimir M. Veliov

The elucidation of many physical problems in science and engineering is subject to the accurate numerical modelling of complex wave propagation phenomena. Over the last decades, high-order numerical approximation for partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Mathias Anselmann , Markus Bause

Since the first optimality proofs for adaptive mesh refinement algorithms in the early 2000s, the theory of optimal mesh refinement for PDEs was inherently limited to stationary problems. The reason for this is that time-dependent problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Michael Feischl , Fernando Henríquez , David Niederkofler

We develop efficient hierarchical preconditioners for optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations with uncertain coefficients. Adopting a discretize-then-optimize framework that integrates finite element…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zhendong Li , Akwum Onwunta , Bedřich Sousedík

Recently the authors have studied a state and control constrained optimal control problem with fractional elliptic PDE as constraints. The goal of this paper is to continue that program forward and introduce an algorithm to solve such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Harbir Antil , Thomas S. Brown , Deepanshu Verma

We present here the classical Schwarz method with a time domain decomposition applied to unconstrained parabolic optimal control problems. Unlike Dirichlet-Neumann and Neumann-Neumann algorithms, we find different properties based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Martin Jakob Gander , Liu-Di Lu

Strong approximation errors of both finite element semi-discretization and spatio-temporal full discretization are analyzed for the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation driven by additive noise in space dimension $d \leq 3$. The full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Ruisheng Qi , Xiaojie Wang

In this paper we develop an adaptive procedure for the numerical solution of semilinear parabolic problems, with possible singular perturbations. Our approach combines a linearization technique using Newton's method with an adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Mario Amrein , Thomas P. Wihler

Coefficient inverse problems related to identifying the right-hand side of an equation with use of additional information is of interest among inverse problems for partial differential equations. When considering non-stationary problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Petr N. Vabishchevich

This paper presents a method to approximately solve stochastic optimal control problems in which the cost function and the system dynamics are polynomial. For stochastic systems with polynomial dynamics, the moments of the state can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Andrew Lamperski , Khem Raj Ghusinga , Abhyudai Singh

This paper presents a space-time finite element method (FEM) based on an unfitted mesh for solving parabolic problems on moving domains. Unlike other unfitted space-time finite element approaches that commonly employ the discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Ruizhi Wang , Weibing Deng

The paper deals with a stochastic Galerkin approximation of elliptic Dirichlet boundary control problems with random input data. The expectation of a tracking cost functional with the deterministic constrained control is minimized. Error…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Max Winkler , Hamdullah Yücel

We consider fully discrete finite element approximations for a semilinear optimal control system of partial differential equations in two cases: for distributed and Robin boundary control. The ecological predator-prey optimal control model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-25 EFthymios N. Karatzas

In this paper, we consider a state constrained optimal control problem governed by the transient Stokes equations. The state constraint is given by an L2 functional in space, which is required to fulfill a pointwise bound in time. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler , Jakob Wagner