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In this paper we introduce a new notion of optimal control, or source identification in inverse, problems with fractional parabolic PDEs as constraints. This new notion allows a source/control placement outside the domain where the PDE is…

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This paper investigates degenerate nonlocal free boundary problems arising in the context of superconductivity, extending the nonlocal counterpart to the work of Caffarelli, Salazar, and Shahgholian \cite{CS02, CSS04} in the local setting.…

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In this paper, we derive explicit second-order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions of a local minimizer to an optimal control problem for a quasilinear second-order partial differential equation with a piecewise smooth but not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Christian Clason , Vu Huu Nhu , Arnd Rösch

In this article we consider shape optimization problems as optimal control problems via the method of mappings. Instead of optimizing over a set of admissible shapes a reference domain is introduced and it is optimized over a set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Johannes Haubner , Martin Siebenborn , Michael Ulbrich

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, we study optimal control problems of semilinear elliptic and parabolic equations. A tracking cost functional, quadratic in the control and state variables, is considered. No control constraints are imposed. We prove that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Eduardo Casas , Daniel Wachsmuth

In this paper we consider the optimal control of semilinear fractional PDEs with both spectral and integral fractional diffusion operators of order $2s$ with $s \in (0,1)$. We first prove the boundedness of solutions to both semilinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Harbir Antil , Mahamadi Warma

We investigate a distributed optimal control problem for a nonlocal phase field model of viscous Cahn-Hilliard type. The model constitutes a nonlocal version of a model for two-species phase segregation on an atomic lattice under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

This letter presents a framework for synthesizing a robust full-state feedback controller for systems with unknown nonlinearities. Our approach characterizes input-output behavior of the nonlinearities in terms of local norm bounds using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Sze Kwan Cheah , Diganta Bhattacharjee , Maziar S. Hemati , Ryan J. Caverly

We analyze the interior controllability problem for a nonlocal Schr\"odinger equation involving the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^s$, $s\in(0,1)$, on a bounded $C^{1,1}$ domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$. The controllability from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Umberto Biccari

In this paper we study optimal control problem for non local Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman system which models phase separation of binary fluids in porous media. We consider the system in two dimensional bounded domain with regular potential. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Sheetal Dharmatti , Mahendranath PL N

The purpose of this paper is three-fold. Firstly we attack a nonlinear interface problem on an unbounded domain with nonmonotone set-valued transmission conditions. The investigated problem involves a nonlinear monotone partial differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Joachim Gwinner

This article presents a constrained policy optimization approach for the optimal control of systems under nonstationary uncertainties. We introduce an assumption that we call Markov embeddability that allows us to cast the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sungho Shin , François Pacaud , Emil Contantinescu , Mihai Anitescu

We analyze a family of non-local integral functionals of convolution-type depending on two small positive parameters $\varepsilon,\delta$: the first rules the length-scale of the non-local interactions and produces a `localization' effect…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Giuseppe Cosma Brusca

In this paper we study two optimal design problems associated to fractional Sobolev spaces $W^{s,p}(\Omega)$. Then we find a relationship between these two problems and finally we investigate the convergence when $s\uparrow 1$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-04 J. Fernandez Bonder , J. Spedaletti

Many optimization algorithms converge to stationary points. When the underlying problem is nonconvex, they may get trapped at local minimizers and occasionally stagnate near saddle points. We propose the Run-and-Inspect Method, which adds…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Yifan Chen , Yuejiao Sun , Wotao Yin

This article develops a numerical approximation of a convex non-local and non-smooth minimization problem. The physical problem involves determining the optimal distribution, given by $h\colon \Gamma_I\to [0,+\infty)$, of a given amount…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Harbir Antil , Alex Kaltenbach , Keegan L. A. Kirk

This article addresses the problem of data-driven numerical optimal control for unknown nonlinear systems. In our scenario, we suppose to have the possibility of performing multiple experiments (or simulations) on the system. Experiments…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Marco Borghesi , Lorenzo Sforni , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We propose a neural network approach to model general interaction dynamics and an adjoint based stochastic gradient descent algorithm to calibrate its parameters. The parameter calibration problem is considered as optimal control problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Simone Göttlich , Claudia Totzeck

We consider the stochastic optimal control problem for the dynamical system of the stochastic differential equation driven by a local martingale with a spatial parameter. Assuming the convexity of the control domain, we obtain the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Jian Song , Meng Wang