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An optimal control problem subject to an elliptic obstacle problem is studied. We obtain a numerical approximation of this problem by discretising the PDE obtained via a Moreau--Yosida type penalisation. For the resulting discrete control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Ahmad Ahmad Ali , Klaus Deckelnick , Michael Hinze

In this paper we discuss the numerical solution of elliptic distributed optimal control problems with state or control constraints when the control is considered in the energy norm. As in the unconstrained case we can relate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Peter Gangl , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach

In this paper we propose a new finite element method for solving elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise state constraints, including the distributed controls and the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary controls. The main idea is to use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Wei Gong , Zhiyu Tan

In this paper error analysis for finite element discretizations of Dirichlet boundary control problems is developed. For the first time, optimal discretization error estimates are established in the case of three dimensional polyhedral and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Johannes Pfefferer , Boris Vexler

In this paper we consider optimal control problems where the control variable is a potential and the state equation is an elliptic partial differential equation of a Schr\"odinger type, governed by the Laplace operator. The cost functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Juan Casado_Díaz , Faustino Maestre

In this work, new theoretical results on functional type a posteriori estimates for elliptic optimal control problems with control constraints are presented. More precisely, we derive new, sharp, guaranteed and fully computable lower bounds…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Monika Wolfmayr

In this paper, we deal with an elliptic problem with the Dirichlet boundary condition. We operate in Sobolev spaces and the main analytic tool we use is the Lax-Milgram lemma. First, we present the variational approach of the problem which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Eriselda Goga , Besiana Hamzallari

The model problem of a plane angle for a second-order elliptic system subject to Dirichlet, mixed, and Neumann boundary conditions is analyzed. For each boundary condition, the existence of solutions of the form $r^\lambda v$ is reduced to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Michael Tsopanopoulos

A finite element analysis of a Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by the linear parabolic equation is presented in this article. The Dirichlet control is considered in a closed and convex subset of the energy space $H^1(\Omega…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Thirupathi Gudi , Gouranga Mallik , Ramesh Ch. Sau

We consider the supercritical elliptic problem -\Delta u = \lambda e^u, \lambda > 0, in an exterior domain $\Omega = \mathbb{R}^N \setminus D$ under zero Dirichlet condition, where D is smooth and bounded in \mathbb{R}^N, N greater or equal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Juan Dávila , Luis F. López

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems subject to a semilinear elliptic partial differential equations. The cost functional contains a term that measures the size of the support of the control, which is the so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Eduardo Casas , Daniel Wachsmuth

We consider the solution of $-\Delta u = 1$ on convex domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions $u =0$ on $\partial \Omega$. Our main concern is the behavior of $\|\nabla u\|_{L^{\infty}}$, also known as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Linhang Huang

In this paper, we consider the optimal control problem in a 3D flow model for incompressible rigid-viscoplastic media of the Bingham kind with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and a given cost functional. On the basis of methods of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-23 M. A. Artemov , A. V. Skobaneva

We propose in this paper a multilevel correction method to solve optimal control problems constrained by elliptic equations with the finite element method. In this scheme, solving optimization problem on the finest finite element space is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Wei Gong , Hehu Xie , Ningning Yan

A continuous optimal control problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality was considered in Boukrouche-Tarzia, Comput. Optim. Appl., 53 (2012), 375-392 where the control variable is the internal energy $g$. It was proved the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Mariela Olguín , Domingo A. Tarzia

We investigate the Dirichlet boundary control of the Laplace equation, considering the control in $H^{1/2}(\partial \Omega)$, which is the natural space for Dirichlet data when the state belongs to $H^1(\Omega)$. The cost of the control is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

In this paper, an optimal control problem governed by a class of p-Laplacian elliptic equations is studied. In particular, as no monotonicity assumption is assumed on the nonlinear term, the state equation may admit several solutions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Hongwei Lou , Shu Luan

In this paper we prove the existence of an optimal domain $\Omega_{opt}$ for the shape optimization problem $$\max\Big\{\lambda_q(\Omega)\ :\ \Omega\subset D,\ \lambda_p(\Omega)=1\Big\},$$ where $q<p$ and $D$ is a prescribed bounded subset…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Giuseppe Buttazzo

We consider the problem of optimal location of a Dirichlet region in a $d$-dimensional domain $\Omega$ subjected to a given right-hand side $f$ in order to minimize some given functional of the configuration. While in the literature the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-17 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Al-hassem Nayam

In this paper we consider the convergence analysis of adaptive finite element method for elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise control constraints. We use variational discretization concept to discretize the control variable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Wei Gong , Ningning Yan