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Modelling and control in pseudoplate problem with discontinuous thickness

Ján Lovíšek (2009)

Applications of Mathematics

This paper concerns an obstacle control problem for an elastic (homogeneous) and isotropic) pseudoplate. The state problem is modelled by a coercive variational inequality, where control variable enters the coefficients of the linear operator. Here, the role of control variable is played by the thickness of the pseudoplate which need not belong to the set of continuous functions. Since in general problems of control in coefficients have no optimal solution, a class of the extended optimal control...

Modelling Physiological and Pharmacological Control on Cell Proliferation to Optimise Cancer Treatments

J. Clairambault (2009)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

This review aims at presenting a synoptic, if not exhaustive, point of view on some of the problems encountered by biologists and physicians who deal with natural cell proliferation and disruptions of its physiological control in cancer disease. It also aims at suggesting how mathematicians are naturally challenged by these questions and how they might help, not only biologists to deal theoretically with biological complexity, but also physicians to optimise therapeutics, on which last point the...

Morrey regularity and continuity results for almost minimizers of asymptotically convex integrals

Mikil Foss, Antonia Passarelli di Napoli, Anna Verde (2008)

Applicationes Mathematicae

In a recent paper [Forum Math., 2008] the authors established some global, up to the boundary of a domain Ω ⊂ ℝⁿ, continuity and Morrey regularity results for almost minimizers of functionals of the form u Ω g ( x , u ( x ) , u ( x ) ) d x . The main assumptions for these results are that g is asymptotically convex and that it satisfies some growth conditions. In this article, we present a specialized but significant version of this general result. The primary purpose of this paper is provide several applications of this simplified...

Nash equilibrium for a multiobjective control problem related to wastewater management

Néstor García-Chan, Rafael Muñoz-Sola, Miguel Ernesto Vázquez-Méndez (2009)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

This paper is concerned with mathematical modelling in the management of a wastewater treatment system. The problem is formulated as looking for a Nash equilibrium of a multiobjective pointwise control problem of a parabolic equation. Existence of solution is proved and a first order optimality system is obtained. Moreover, a numerical method to solve this system is detailed and numerical results are shown in a realistic situation posed in the estuary of Vigo (Spain).


Nash equilibrium payoffs for stochastic differential games with reflection

Qian Lin (2013)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

In this paper, we investigate Nash equilibrium payoffs for nonzero-sum stochastic differential games with reflection. We obtain an existence theorem and a characterization theorem of Nash equilibrium payoffs for nonzero-sum stochastic differential games with nonlinear cost functionals defined by doubly controlled reflected backward stochastic differential equations.

Nonconcentrating generalized Young functionals

Tomáš Roubíček (1997)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

The Young measures, used widely for relaxation of various optimization problems, can be naturally understood as certain functionals on suitable space of integrands, which allows readily various generalizations. The paper is focused on such functionals which can be attained by sequences whose “energy” (= p th power) does not concentrate in the sense that it is relatively weakly compact in L 1 ( Ω ) . Straightforward applications to coercive optimization problems are briefly outlined.

Nonconvex Duality and Semicontinuous Proximal Solutions of HJB Equation in Optimal Control

Mustapha Serhani, Nadia Raïssi (2009)

RAIRO - Operations Research

In this work, we study an optimal control problem dealing with differential inclusion. Without requiring Lipschitz condition of the set valued map, it is very hard to look for a solution of the control problem. Our aim is to find estimations of the minimal value, (α), of the cost function of the control problem. For this, we construct an intermediary dual problem leading to a weak duality result, and then, thanks to additional assumptions of monotonicity of proximal subdifferential, we give a more...

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