English

A boundary control problem for a possibly singular phase field system with dynamic boundary conditions

Analysis of PDEs 2015-09-04 v3 Optimization and Control

Abstract

This paper deals with an optimal control problem related to a phase field system of Caginalp type with a dynamic boundary condition for the temperature. The control placed in the dynamic boundary condition acts on a part of the boundary. The analysis carried out in this paper proves the existence of an optimal control for a general class of potentials, possibly singular. The study includes potentials for which the derivatives may not exist, these being replaced by well-defined subdifferentials. Under some stronger assumptions on the structure parameters and on the potentials (namely for the regular and the logarithmic case having single-valued derivatives), the first order necessary optimality conditions are derived and expressed in terms of the boundary trace of the first adjoint variable.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1501.04517,
  title  = {A boundary control problem for a possibly singular phase field system with dynamic boundary conditions},
  author = {Pierluigi Colli and Gianni Gilardi and Gabriela Marinoschi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.04517},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Key words: phase field system, phase transition, singular potentials, optimal control, optimality conditions, adjoint state system, dynamic boundary conditions. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1410.6718

R2 v1 2026-06-22T08:05:48.732Z