I) We consider a system governed by a free boundary problem with Tresca condition on a part of the boundary of a material domain with a source term g through a parabolic variational inequality of the second kind. We prove the existence and uniqueness results to a family of distributed optimal control problems over g for each parameter h > 0, associated to the Newton law (Robin boundary conditio...

Linear quasi-parabolic integro-differential equations and their control appear in many scientific problems and engineering applications such as biology mechanics, nuclear reaction dynamics, heat conduction in materials with memory, and visco-elasticity, etc.. The existence and uniqueness of the solution of the linear quasi-parabolic integro-differential equations have been studied by Wheeler M....

The aim of this work is to investigate the variational discretization and mixed finite element methods for optimal control problem governed by semi linear parabolic equations with integral constraint. The state and co-state are approximated by the lowest order Raviart-Thomas mixed finite element spaces and the control is not discreted. Optimal error estimates in L2 are established for the state...

Let G be a bounded domain in R" and Q = G X (0, T). We consider the solution^«) of the pseudo-parabolic initial-value problem (1 + M(x))y,(u) + L(x)y(u) = u in L2(Q), y(-,0;u) = 0 in L2(G), to be the state corresponding to the control u. Here M(x) and L{x) are symmetric uniformly strongly elliptic second-order partial differential operators. The control problem is to find a control un in a fixe...

Abstract. This paper presents a new observability estimate for parabolic equations in × (0, T ), where  is a convex domain. The observation region is restricted over a product set of an open nonempty subset of  and a subset of positive measure in (0, T ). This estimate is derived with the aid of a quantitative unique continuation at one point in time. Applications to the bang-bang property f...

The main focus of this paper is on an a-posteriori analysis for the method of proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) applied to optimal control problems governed by parabolic and elliptic PDEs. Based on a perturbation method it is deduced how far the suboptimal control, computed on the basis of the POD model, is from the (unknown) exact one. Numerical examples illustrate the realization of the p...

This paper is concerned with the state-constrained optimal control of the twodimensional thermistor problem, a quasi-linear coupled system of a parabolic and elliptic PDE with mixed boundary conditions. This system models the heating of a conducting material by means of direct current. Existence, uniqueness and continuity for the state system are derived by employing maximal elliptic and parabo...