In this paper we study optimal control problems governed by semilinear parabolic equations. We obtain necessary optimality conditions in the form of an exact Pontryagin’s minimum principle for distributed and boundary controls (which can be unbounded) and bounded initial controls. These optimality conditions are obtained thanks to new regularity results for linear and nonlinear parabolic equati...

The paper is concerned with the optimal design problems for the fourth order variational inequalities. Namely, the first order necessary optimality conditions are derived for the class of optimization problems under consideration. The differential stability of metric projection in the Sobolev space HQ{Q) onto the cone of nonnegative elements is considered by Mignot [9]. Mignot derived the form ...

The convergence rate is determined for Runge-Kutta discretizations of nonlinear control problems. The analysis utilizes a connection between the Kuhn-Tucker multipliers for the discrete problem and the adjoint variables associated with the continuous minimum principle. This connection can also be exploited in numerical solution techniques that require the gradient of the discrete cost function.

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems for Allen-Cahn variational inequalities with a dynamic boundary condition involving double obstacle potentials and the LaplaceBeltrami operator. The approach covers both the cases of distributed controls and of boundary controls. The cost functional is of standard tracking type, and box constraints for the controls are prescribed. We prove ...

This paper presents the numerical solution of a constrained optimal control problem (COCP) for quasilinear parabolic equations. The COCP is converted to unconstrained optimization problem (UOCP) by applying the exterior penalty function method. Necessary optimality conditions for the considered problem are established. The computing optimal controls are helped to identify the unknown coefficien...