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This paper continues the investigations from [7] and is concerned with the derivation of first-order conditions for a control constrained optimization problem governed by a non-smooth elliptic PDE. The control enters the state equation not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Livia Betz

In this paper we study we study a Dirichlet optimal control prob- lem associated with a linear elliptic equation the coefficients of which we take as controls in the class of integrable functions. The characteristic feature of this control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Thierry Horsin , Peter Kogut , Olivier Wilk

We consider optimal control of an elliptic two-point boundary value problem governed by functions of bounded variation (BV). The cost functional is composed of a tracking term for the state and the BV-seminorm of the control. We use the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Evelyn Herberg , Michael Hinze

In this paper we study an optimal control problem associated to a linear degenerate elliptic equation with mixed boundary conditions. The equations of this type can exhibit the Lavrentieff phenomenon and non-uniqueness of weak solutions. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-12-16 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Peter I. Kogut

In this paper we study an optimal control problem (OCP) associated to a linear elliptic equation {on a bounded domain $\Omega$}. The matrix-valued coefficients A of such systems is our control taken in L2 which in particular may comprise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-12 Thierry Horsin , Peter I. Kogut

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

The optimal control of problems that are constrained by partial differential equations with uncertainties and with uncertain controls is addressed. The Lagrangian that defines the problem is postulated in terms of stochastic functions, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-19 Eveline Rosseel , Garth N. Wells

We consider optimal control problems, where the control appears in the main part of the operator. We derive the Pontryagin maximum principle as a necessary optimality condition. The proof uses the concept of topological derivatives. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Daniel Wachsmuth

An optimal control problem driven by an ordinary differential equation under continuous state constraints is considered in this study. From an operational point of view, we introduce a discrete state constraints optimal control problem and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Shuzhen Yang

A class of optimal control problems governed by linear fractional diffusion equation with control constraint is considered. We first establish some results on the existence of strong solution to the state equation and the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Bui Trong Kien , Bui Ngoc Muoi , Ching-Feng Wen , Jen-Chih Yao

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

We consider an elliptic optimal control problem where the objective functional contains an integral along a surface of codimension 1, also known as a hypersurface. In particular, we use a fidelity term that encourages the state to take…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-19 C. Brett , A. S. Dedner , C. M. Elliott

We present a new parallel computational framework for the efficient solution of a class of $L^2$/$L^1$-regularized optimal control problems governed by semi-linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The main difficulty in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Gabriele Ciaramella , Michael Kartmann , Georg Müller

Optimality conditions in the form of a variational inequality are proved for a class of constrained optimal control problems of stochastic differential equations. The cost function and the inequality constraints are functions of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Laurent Pfeiffer

We propose a local regularization of elliptic optimal control problems which involves the nonconvex $L^q$ fractional penalizations in the cost function. The proposed \emph{Huber type} regularization allows us to formulate the PDE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Pedro Merino

We consider the control of semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) via deterministic controls. In the case of multiplicative noise, existence of optimal controls and necessary conditions for optimality are derived. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Wilhelm Stannat , Lukas Wessels

We consider the integral definition of the fractional Laplacian and analyze a linear-quadratic optimal control problem for the so-called fractional heat equation; control constraints are also considered. We derive existence and uniqueness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Christian Glusa , Enrique Otarola

In this paper, a quadratic optimal control problem is considered for second-order parabolic PDEs with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, in which the "point" control function (depending only on time) constitutes a source term. These…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Gilberto O. Corrêa , Marlon M. López-Flores , Alexandre L. Madureira

We construct and analyze a multiscale finite element method for an elliptic distributed optimal control problem with pointwise control constraints, where the state equation has rough coefficients. We show that the performance of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Susanne C. Brenner , Jose C. Garay , Li-yeng Sung

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