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In this paper, optimal control problems governed by diffusion equations with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions are investigated in the framework of the gradient discretisation method. Gradient schemes are defined for the optimality…

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We begin an investigation of hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods for approximating the solution of Dirichlet boundary control problems governed by elliptic PDEs. These problems can involve atypical variational formulations,…

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This paper considers the finite element approximation to parabolic optimal control problems with measure data in a nonconvex polygonal domain. Such problems usually possess low regularity in the state variable due to the presence of measure…

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We propose a novel Galerkin discretization scheme for stochastic optimal control problems on an indefinite time horizon. The control problems are linear-quadratic in the controls, but possibly nonlinear in the state variables, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Ralf Banisch , Carsten Hartmann

We consider a numerical approximation of a linear quadratic control problem constrained by the stochastic heat equation with non-homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. This involves a combination of distributed and boundary control, as…

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In this paper, we study the nonhomogeneous Dirichlet problem concerning general semilinear elliptic equations in divergence form. We establish that the boundary Lipschitz regularity of solutions under some more weaker conditions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Jingqi Liang , Lihe Wang , Chunqin Zhou

We consider an unconstrained tangential Dirichlet boundary control problem for the Stokes equations with an $ L^2 $ penalty on the boundary control. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, we obtain well-posedness and regularity…

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Many applications in science and engineering require the solution of large linear discrete ill-posed problems that are obtained by the discretization of a Fredholm integral equation of the first kind in several space-dimensions. The matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Laura Dykes , Guangxin Huang , Silvia Noschese , Lothar Reichel

Current quadratic smoothness energies for curved surfaces either exhibit distortions near the boundary due to zero Neumann boundary conditions, or they do not correctly account for intrinsic curvature, which leads to unnatural-looking…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Oded Stein , Alec Jacobson , Max Wardetzky , Eitan Grinspun

In a separable Hilbert space, we study the minimization problem of a convex smooth function with Lipschitz continuous gradient whose evaluations are corrupted by random noise. To this end, we associate a stochastic inertial system that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Chiara Schindler

We study a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving a parabolic equation with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative of orders $s \in (0,1)$ and $\gamma \in (0,1]$, respectively. The spatial fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-02 Harbir Antil , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

The present paper establishes a certain duality between the Dirichlet and Regularity problems for elliptic operators with $t$-independent complex bounded measurable coefficients ($t$ being the transversal direction to the boundary). To be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Steve Hofmann , Carlos Kenig , Svitlana Mayboroda , Jill Pipher

In this paper we propose new insights and ideas to set up quantitative boundary estimates for solutions to Dirichlet problem of a class of fully non-linear elliptic equations on compact Hermitian manifolds with real analytic Levi flat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Rirong Yuan

In this paper we utilise new methods of Calculus of Variations in $L^\infty$ to provide a regularisation strategy to the ill-posed inverse problem of identifying the source of a non-homogeneous linear elliptic equation, satisfying Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Nikos Katzourakis

We derive the solvability and regularity of the Dirichlet problem for fully non-linear elliptic equations possibly with degenerate right-hand side on Hermitian manifolds, through establishing a quantitative version of boundary estimate…

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This paper is concerned with minimization of a fourth-order linearized Canham-Helfrich energy subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions on curves inside the domain. Such problems arise in the modeling of the mechanical interaction of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Carsten Gräser , Tobias Kies

This work addresses the finite-horizon robust covariance control problem for discrete-time, partially observable, linear system affected by random zero mean noise and deterministic but unknown disturbances restricted to lie in what is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Georgios Kotsalis , Guanghui Lan , Arkadi Nemirovski

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

We present a numerical approximation method for linear diffusion-reaction problems with possibly discontinuous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The solution of such problems can be represented as a linear combination of explicitly known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Ramona Baumann , Thomas P. Wihler