Regularity of flows and optimal control of shear-thinning fluids
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چکیده
We study optimal control problems of systems describing the flow of incompressible shearthinning fluids. Taking advantage of regularity properties of the flows, we derive necessary optimality conditions under a restriction on the optimal control.
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