An optimal control problem for 2-d and 3-d Stokes problem is investigated with pointwise control constraints. This paper is concerned with the discretization of the control by piecewise constant functions. The state and the adjoint state are discretized by stable or stabilized finite element schemes. In the paper a superconvergence based post-processing is suggest, which allows for significant ...

1. Introduction While aerodynamic prediction methods based CFD are now well established , and quite accurate and robust, the ultimate need in the design process is to find the optimum shape which maximizes the aerodynamic performance. One way to approach this objective is to view it as a control problem, in which the wing is treated as a device which controls the flow to produce lift with minim...

A mathematical model is presented in the present study to control‎ ‎the light propagation in an inhomogeneous media‎. ‎The method is ‎based on the identification of the optimal materials distribution‎ ‎in the media such that the trajectories of light rays follow the‎ ‎desired path‎. ‎The problem is formulated as a distributed parameter ‎identification problem and it is solved by a numerical met...

This paper is concerned with the discretization error analysis of semilinear Neumann boundary control problems in polygonal domains with pointwise inequality constraints on the control. The approximations of the control are piecewise constant functions. The state and adjoint state are discretized by piecewise linear finite elements. In a postprocessing step approximations of locally optimal con...

In optimal control problems with nonlinear time-dependent 3D PDEs, full 4D discretizations are usually prohibitive due to the storage requirement. For this reason gradient and Newton type methods working on the reduced functional are often employed. The computation of the reduced gradient requires one solve of the state equation forward in time, and one backward solve of the adjoint equation. T...

An abstract linear-quadratic optimal control problem with pointwise control constraints is investigated. This paper is concerned with the discretization of the control by piecewise linear functions. Under the assumption that the optimal control and the optimal adjoint state are Lipschitz continuous and piecewise of class C an approximation of order h is proved for the solution of the control di...

This paper presents an infinite-dimensional Receding Horizon Observer for linear 2x2 hyperbolic systems with boundary measurements. The initial state is estimated as the optimal solution of an optimization problem which minimizes the distance between the measurements and the observer output. A constructive method is used to derive the existence and uniqueness of the solution. A composite strate...

We investigate smooth and sparse optimal control problems for convective FitzHughNagumo equation with travelling wave solutions in moving excitable media. The cost function includes distributed space-time and terminal observations or targets. The state and adjoint equations are discretized in space by symmetric interior point Galerkin (SIPG) method and by backward Euler method in time. Several ...

Seismic tomography is a technique to determine the material properties of the Earth’s subsurface based on the observation of seismograms. This can be stated as a PDE-constrained optimization problem governed by the elastic wave equation. We present a semismooth Newton-PCG method with a trust-region globalization for full-waveform seismic inversion that uses a MoreauYosida regularization to hand...

Common velocity analysis is based on the invariance of migrated images with respect to the experiment index (shot number, plane-wave take-off angle, etc.) or extension parameters (reflection angle, correlation lags in extended images, etc.). All the information available, i.e. the entire survey, is used for assessing the quality of the model used for imaging. This approach is effective but forc...