in this paper, simultaneous control of source terms is considered in a vibrational string problem.in the considered problem, the terms to be controlled are the force and the initial velocity functions. we statethe generalized (weak) solution about the considered problem. the existence and uniqueness of the solutionfor optimal control problem is investigated. the frechet derivative of the functi...

We study a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving a parabolic equation with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative of orders s ∈ (0, 1) and γ ∈ (0, 1], respectively. The spatial fractional diffusion is realized as the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for a nonuniformly elliptic operator. Thus, we consider an equivalent formulation with a quasi-stationary elliptic problem...

In this paper we consider a global optimization approach for solving fuzzy fractional posynomial geometric programming problems. The problem of concern involves positive trapezoidal fuzzy numbers in the objective function. For obtaining an optimal solution, Dinkelbach’s algorithm which achieves the optimal solution of the optimization problem by means of solving a sequence of subproblems ...

We provide a fast and simple method to solve fractional variational problems with dependence on Hadamard fractional derivatives. Using a relation between the Hadamard fractional operator and a sum involving integer-order derivatives, we rewrite the fractional problem into a classical optimal control problem. The latter problem is then solved by application of standard numerical techniques. We i...

This paper presents a numerical solution of a class of fractional optimal control problems (FOCPs) in a bounded domain having a noise function by the spectral Ritz method‎. ‎The Bernstein polynomials with the fractional operational matrix are applied to approximate the unknown functions‎. ‎By substituting these estimated functions into the cost functional‎, ‎an unconstrained nonlinear optimizat...