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We investigate $C^1$ finite element methods for one dimensional elliptic distributed optimal control problems with pointwise constraints on the derivative of the state formulated as fourth order variational inequalities for the state…
This paper shows how a class of non-convex optimization problems constrained by discretized nonlinear partial differential equations may be solved to global optimality using an interior point continuation method. The solution procedure…
In this paper, we consider a quasi-linear stochastic heat equation on $[0,1]$, with Dirichlet boundary conditions and controlled by the space-time white noise. We formally replace the random perturbation by a family of noisy inputs…
We study an optimal control problem for the heat equation with a prescribed terminal state. To circumvent the difficulty of enforcing a hard terminal constraint, we analyze a penalized formulation and prove that the corresponding optimal…
In this paper, we use stochastic polynomial optimization to derive high-performance operating strategies for heating networks with uncertain or variable demand. The heat flow in district heating networks can be regulated by varying the…
In this paper, we prove the necessary and sufficient maximum principles (NSMPs in short) for the optimal control of systems described by a quasilinear stochastic heat equation within convex control domains, which all the coefficients…
The discretization approximation method commonly used to simulate the dynamics of quantum system coupled to the environment in continuum often suffers from the periodically partial recovery of initial state because of the effect of finite…
The stable operation of gas networks is an important optimization target. While for this task commonly finite volume methods are used, we introduce a new finite difference approach. With a summation by part formulation for the spatial…
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The Stochastic Heat Flow (SHF) emerges as the scaling limit of directed polymers in random environments and the noise-mollified Stochastic Heat Equation (SHE), specifically at the critical dimension of two and near the critical temperature.…
The problem of heat conduction in one-dimensional piecewise homogeneous composite materials is examined by providing an explicit solution of the one-dimensional heat equation in each domain. The location of the interfaces is known, but…
In this work, we design and analyze a novel, provably conditionally stable, weakly coupled partitioned scheme to solve the conjugate heat transfer (CHT) problem. We consider a model CHT problem consisting of linear advection-diffusion and…
Many systems exhibit a mixture of continuous and discrete dynamics. We consider a family of mixed-integer non-convex non-linear optimisation problems obtained in discretisations of optimal control of such systems. For this family, a…
We propose a time-implicit, finite-element based space-time discretization of the necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for the stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem with the stochastic heat equation driven by linear…
We consider the primal and dual forms of the optimality conditions for PDE-contrained optimization problems arising in Data-Driven Computational Mechanics when specialized to the reaction-diffusion context. Starting with the continuous…
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In this paper we derive quantitative boundary H\"older estimates, with explicit constants, for the inhomogeneous Poisson problem in a bounded open set $D\subset \mathbb{R}^d$. Our approach has two main steps: firstly, we consider an…
We present an explicit second order staggered finite difference (FD) discretization scheme for forward simulation of natural gas transport in pipeline networks. By construction, this discretization approach guarantees that the conservation…
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