In this paper we present an optimal control approach modeling fast exit scenarios in pedestrian crowds. In particular we consider the case of a large human crowd trying to exit a room as fast as possible. The motion of every pedestrian is determined by minimizing a cost functional, which depends on his/her position, velocity, exit time and the overall density of people. This microscopic setup l...

In this paper we study optimal control problems governed by semilinear parabolic equations where the spatial dimension is two or three. Moreover, we consider pointwise constraints on the control and on the state. We formulate first order necessary and second order sufficient optimality conditions. We make use of recent results regarding elliptic regularity and apply the concept of maximal parab...

This paper considers the optimal control of a degenerate parabolic partial differential equation governing a di usive population with logistic growth terms. Assuming this population causes damage to forest and agricultural land, the optimal control is the trapping rate and the cost functional is a combination of the damage and trapping costs. We prove existence, uniqueness, and regularity resul...

We consider an optimal control problem of a system of parabolic partial differential equations modelling the competition between an invasive and a native species. The motivating example is cottonwood-salt cedar competition, where the effect of disturbance in the system (such as flooding) is taken to be a control variable. Flooding being detrimental at low and high levels, and advantageous at me...

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behaviour of a parabolic optimal control problem in a domain Ωε ⊂ Rn , whose boundary ∂Ωε contains a highly oscillating part. We consider this problem with two different classes of Dirichlet boundary controls, and, as a result, we provide its asymptotic analysis with respect to the different topologies of homogenization. It is shown that the mathematical d...

In this communication we considered and studied the time-optimal control problem for a liner n n co-operative parabolic system defined on a bounded open domain N R   with a strong constraint control n H U u )) ( ( 1 0    . This problem is, steering an initial state u y = (0) with a control , u so that an observation ) (t y hitting a given target set in minimum time. First, we proved the e...

We present some recent developments and issues on adaptive multimesh finite element method, and its applications to computational optimal control. Particularly, we discuss several difficult issues on finite element schemes with adaptive multi-set meshes for parabolic optimal control.

We study optimal controls problems with final observation. The governing parabolic equations or systems involve superlinear nonlinearities and their solutions may blow up in finite time. Our proof of the existence, regularity and optimality conditions for an optimal pair is based on uniform a priori estimates for the approximating solutions. Our conditions on the growth of the nonlinearity are ...

This paper is concerned with the state-constrained optimal control of the threedimensional thermistor problem, a fully quasilinear 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. Local existence, uniqueness and continuity for the state system are derived by employing maximal parabo...

An optimal control problem for a semilinear parabolic partial differential equation with memory is considered. The well-posedness as well the first and second order differentiability of state established by means Schauder fixed point theorem implicity function theorem. For corresponding quadratic cost functional, existence proved. necessary conditions are presented, including investigation adjo...