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A method is presented for the numerical solution of optimal boundary control problems governed by parabolic partial differential equations. The continuous space-time optimal control problem is transcribed into a sparse nonlinear programming…
A new method is developed for solving optimal control problems whose solutions are nonsmooth. The method developed in this paper employs a modified form of the Legendre-Gauss-Radau orthogonal direct collocation method. This modified…
In this work, we propose an adaptive spectral element algorithm for solving nonlinear optimal control problems. The method employs orthogonal collocation at the shifted Gegenbauer-Gauss points combined with very accurate and stable…
An adaptive mesh refinement and error estimation method for numerically solving optimal control problems is developed using Legendre-Gauss-Radau direct collocation. In regions of the solution where the desired accuracy tolerance has not…
A modified form of Legendre-Gauss orthogonal direct collocation is developed for solving optimal control problems whose solutions are nonsmooth due to control discontinuities. This new method adds switch-time variables, control variables,…
This study presents an aposteriori error analysis of adaptive finite element approximations of parabolic boundary control problems with bilateral box constraints that act on a Neumann boundary. The control problem is discretized using the…
A new method is described for solving optimal control problems using direct collocation at Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto points. The approach of this paper employs a polynomial approximation of the right-hand side vector field of the differential…
In this paper, we investigate an optimal control problem governed by parabolic equations with measure-valued controls over time. We establish the well-posedness of the optimal control problem and derive the first-order optimality condition…
A new method is developed for accurately approximating the solution to state-variable inequality path constrained optimal control problems using a multiple-domain adaptive Legendre-Gauss-Radau collocation method. The method consists of the…
We consider locally stabilized, conforming finite element schemes on completely unstructured simplicial space-time meshes for the numerical solution of parabolic initial-boundary value problems with variable, possibly discontinuous in space…
We study the numerical approximation by space-time finite element methods of a multi-physics system coupling hyperbolic elastodynamics with parabolic transport and modeling poro- and thermoelasticity. The equations are rewritten as a…
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…
We propose a high-order adaptive numerical solver for the semilinear elliptic boundary value problem modelling magnetic plasma equilibrium in axisymmetric confinement devices. In the fixed boundary case, the equation is posed on curved…
We consider goal-oriented adaptive space-time finite-element discretizations of the regularized parabolic p-Laplace problem on completely unstructured simplicial space-time meshes. The adaptivity is driven by the dual-weighted residual…
In many applications of practical interest, solutions of partial differential equation models arise as critical points of an underlying (energy) functional. If such solutions are saddle points, rather than being maxima or minima, then the…
In this paper we establish a best approximation property of fully discrete Galerkin finite element solutions of second order parabolic problems on convex polygonal and polyhedral domains in the $L^\infty$ norm. The discretization method…
We present a posteriori error estimates for inconsistent and non-hierarchical Galerkin methods for linear parabolic problems, allowing them to be used in conjunction with very general mesh modification for the first time. We treat schemes…
In this paper, we consider the finite element approximation to a parabolic Dirichlet boundary control problem and establish new a priori error estimates. In the temporal semi-discretization we apply the DG(0) method for the state and the…
We consider an optimal control problem constrained by a parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) with Robin boundary conditions. We use a well-posed space-time variational formulation in Lebesgue--Bochner spaces with minimal…
Stochastic optimal principle leads to the resolution of a partial differential equation (PDE), namely the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. In general, this equation cannot be solved analytically, thus numerical algorithms are the…