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...

We study the relative value iteration for the ergodic control problem under a nearmonotone running cost structure for a nondegenerate diffusion controlled through its drift. This algorithm takes the form of a quasilinear parabolic Cauchy initial value problem in R. We show that this Cauchy problem stabilizes, or in other words, that the solution of the quasilinear parabolic equation converges f...

The quasilinear degenerate evolution equation of parabolic type d(Mv) dt + L(Mv)v = F (Mv), 0 < t ≤ T considered in a Banach space X is written, putting Mv = u, in the form du dt + A(u)u 3 F (u), 0 < t ≤ T , where A(u) = L(u)M−1 are multivalued linear operators in X for u ∈ K, K being a bounded ball ‖u‖Z < R in another Banach space Z continuously embedded in X. Existence and uniqueness of the l...

Efficient combinations of implicit and explicit multistep methods for nonlinear parabolic equations were recently studied in [1]. In this note we present a refined analysis to allow more general nonlinearities. The abstract theory is applied to a quasilinear parabolic equation. Dedicated to Professor Vidar Thomée on the occasion of his 65 birthday, August 20, 1998

The DeGiorgi-Nash-Moser estimate plays a crucial role in the study of quasilinear elliptic and parabolic equations. In the present paper we shall show that this fundamental estimate holds for solutions of a linear parabolic Volterra inte-grodiierential equation: @u @t = @ @x i a ij (x; t) @u @x j + Z t 0 @ @x i b ij (x; t;) @u @x j dd; where fa ij g and fb ij g are only assumed to be measurable...

We present existence and stability results for periodic solutions of quasilinear parabolic equation related to Leray-Lions’s type operators. To prove existence and localization, we use the penalty method; while for stability we use an approximation scheme.