THEORY AND APPROXIMATION OF OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS DEFINED BY NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Abstract

WE CONSIDER AN OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM FOR SYSTEMS DEFINED BY NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. USING RELAXATION THEORY WE PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF OPTIMAL RELAXED CONTROLS AND DERIVE NECESSARY CONDITIONS OF OPTIMALITY. WETHEN DISCRETIZE THE PROBLEM BY USING A FINITE ELEMENT METHOD AND PROVE THE ANALOGUE THEOREMS FOR THE DISCRETE PROBLEM. MOREOVER, WE STUDY THE BEHAVIOR IN THELIMIT OF THE PROPERTIES OF OPTIMALITY AND EXTREMALITY. FINALLY, WE APPLY OPTIMIZATION METHODS WITH RELAXED CONTROLS TO THE ABOVE PROBLEMS AND ALSO A METHOD OF APPROXIMATION OF RELAXED CONTROLS BY CLASSICAL ONES.

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DOI
10.12681/eadd/2417
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/2417
ND
2417
Alternative title
ΘΕΩΡΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΣΕΓΓΙΣΗ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΩΝ ΒΕΛΤΙΣΤΟΥ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΥ ΜΗ ΓΡΑΜΜΙΚΩΝ ΕΛΛΕΙΠΤΙΚΩΝ ΜΕΡΙΚΩΝ ΔΙΑΦΟΡΙΚΩΝ ΕΞΙΣΩΣΕΩΝ
Author
Kokkinis, Basil
Date
1992
Degree Grantor
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Committee members
ΜΠΑΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ
ΤΣΑΜΑΣΦΥΡΟΣ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ
ΧΡΥΣΟΒΕΡΓΗΣ ΙΩΝ
ΑΚΡΙΒΗΣ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ
ΔΟΥΓΑΛΗΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΣ
Discipline
Natural SciencesMathematics
Keywords
Approximation; Discretization; Elliptic systems; Finite elements; Optimal control; RELAXED CONTROLS
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
088 σ.
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