Optimal obstacle control problems involving nonsmooth cost functionals and quasilinear variational inequalities

Z Peng - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2020 - SIAM
This paper deals with the optimal control of an obstacle problem where the control variable
is the obstacle. The state system is described by a class of quasilinear elliptic variational …

Existence, uniqueness, and convergence of optimal control problems associated with parabolic variational inequalities of the second kind

M Boukrouche, DA Tarzia - Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 2011 - Elsevier
Let ug be the unique solution of a parabolic variational inequality of second kind, with a
given g. Using a regularization method, we prove, for all g1 and g2, a monotony property …

Convergence of distributed optimal control problems governed by elliptic variational inequalities

M Boukrouche, DA Tarzia - Computational Optimization and Applications, 2012 - Springer
First, let ug be the unique solution of an elliptic variational inequality with source term g. We
establish, in the general case, the error estimate between u_3(μ)=μu_g_1+(1-μ)u_g_2 and …

The existence results for optimal control problems governed by a variational inequality

YY Zhou, XQ Yang, KL Teo - Journal of mathematical analysis and …, 2006 - Elsevier
In this paper, we establish the existence of the optimal control for an optimal control problem
where the state of the system is defined by a variational inequality problem with monotone …

An Approximating Approach to an Optimal Control Problem for an Elliptic Variational Inequality on a Mixed Boundary

Y Duan, P Wu, Y Zhou - Numerical Functional Analysis and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, an optimal control problem (OCP) for a system governed by a class of double
obstacle elliptic variational inequalities on a mixed boundary is proposed. An approximating …

Optimal control of elliptic obstacle problems with mixed boundary conditions

Z Peng, S Huang, D Chai - Optimization, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We study optimal control of an elliptic obstacle problem with mixed boundary conditions
whose weak formulation is a nonlinear variational inequality. We put the control on both the …

The existence results for optimal control problems governed by quasi-variational inequalities in reflexive Banach spaces

Z Wang, N Huang, CF Wen - Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, 2012 - projecteuclid.org
In this paper, some existence results for optimal control problems governed by abstract
quasi-variational inequalities are proved in reflexive Banach spaces. As an application, an …

Optimal control of unilateral obstacle problem with a source term

R Ghanem - Positivity, 2009 - Springer
We consider an optimal control problem for the obstacle problem with an elliptic variational
inequality. The obstacle function which is the control function is assumed in H 2. We use an …

Optimal control problems governed by a variational inequality via nonlinear Lagrangian methods

YY Zhou, XQ Yang, KL Teo - Optimization, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, by using nonlinear Lagrangian methods, we study an optimal control problem
where the state of the system is defined by a variational inequality problem for monotone …

The existence results for obstacle optimal control problems

Y Ye, CK Chan, HWJ Lee - Applied mathematics and computation, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with the existence of an optimal control problem for a quasi-linear
elliptic obstacle variational inequality in which the obstacle is taken as the control. Firstly, we …