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Optimal control of stationary, low Mach number, highly nonisothermal, viscous flows

Max D. Gunzburger, O. Yu. Imanuvilov (2010)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

An optimal control problem for a model for stationary, low Mach number, highly nonisothermal, viscous flows is considered. The control problem involves the minimization of a measure of the distance between the velocity field and a given target velocity field. The existence of solutions of a boundary value problem for the model equations is established as is the existence of solutions of the optimal control problem. Then, a derivation of an optimality system, i.e., a boundary value problem from...

Optimal control of the Primitive Equations of the ocean with Lagrangian observations

Maëlle Nodet (2010)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

We consider an optimal control problem for the three-dimensional non-linear Primitive Equations of the ocean in a vertically bounded and horizontally periodic domain. We aim to reconstruct the initial state of the ocean from Lagrangian observations. This inverse problem is formulated as an optimal control problem which consists in minimizing a cost function representing the least square error between Lagrangian observations and their model counterpart, plus a regularization term. This paper proves...

Optimal Convective Heat-Transport

Josef Dalík, Oto Přibyl (2011)

Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Facultas Rerum Naturalium. Mathematica

The one-dimensional steady-state convection-diffusion problem for the unknown temperature y ( x ) of a medium entering the interval ( a , b ) with the temperature y min and flowing with a positive velocity v ( x ) is studied. The medium is being heated with an intensity corresponding to y max - y ( x ) for a constant y max > y min . We are looking for a velocity v ( x ) with a given average such that the outflow temperature y ( b ) is maximal and discuss the influence of the boundary condition at the point b on the “maximizing” function v ( x ) .

Optimal convergence results for the Brezzi-Pitkäranta approximation of the Stokes problem: Exterior domains

Serguei A. Nazarov, Maria Specovius-Neugebauer (2008)

Banach Center Publications

This paper deals with a strongly elliptic perturbation for the Stokes equation in exterior three-dimensional domains Ω with smooth boundary. The continuity equation is substituted by the equation -ε²Δp + div u = 0, and a Neumann boundary condition for the pressure is added. Using parameter dependent Sobolev norms, for bounded domains and for sufficiently smooth data we prove H 5 / 2 - δ convergence for the velocity part and H 3 / 2 - δ convergence for the pressure to the solution of the Stokes problem, with δ arbitrarily...

Optimal design of the cooling plunger cavity

Petr Salač (2013)

Applications of Mathematics

An axisymmetric system of mould, glass piece, plunger and plunger cavity is considered. The state problem is given as a stationary head conduction process. The system includes the glass piece representing the heat source and is cooled inside the plunger cavity by flowing water and outside by the environment of the mould. The design variable is taken to be the shape of the inner surface of the plunger cavity. The cost functional is the second power of the norm in the weighted space L r 2 of difference...

Optimal error Estimates for the Stokes and Navier–Stokes equations with slip–boundary condition

Eberhard Bänsch, Klaus Deckelnick (2010)

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

We consider a finite element discretization by the Taylor–Hood element for the stationary Stokes and Navier–Stokes equations with slip boundary condition. The slip boundary condition is enforced pointwise for nodal values of the velocity in boundary nodes. We prove optimal error estimates in the H1 and L2 norms for the velocity and pressure respectively.

Optimal Poiseuille flow in a finite elastic dyadic tree

Benjamin Mauroy, Nicolas Meunier (2008)

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

In this paper we construct a model to describe some aspects of the deformation of the central region of the human lung considered as a continuous elastically deformable medium. To achieve this purpose, we study the interaction between the pipes composing the tree and the fluid that goes through it. We use a stationary model to determine the deformed radius of each branch. Then, we solve a constrained minimization problem, so as to minimize the viscous (dissipated) energy in the tree. The key...

Optimal regularity for one-dimensional porous medium flow.

Donald G. Aronson, Luis A. Caffarelli (1986)

Revista Matemática Iberoamericana

We give a new proof of the Lipschitz continuity with respect to t of the pressure in a one dimensional porous medium flow. As is shown by the Barenblatt solution, this is the optimal t-regularity for the pressure. Our proof is based on the existence and properties of a certain selfsimilar solution.

Optimal shape design in a fibre orientation model

Jan Stebel, Raino Mäkinen, Jukka I. Toivanen (2007)

Applications of Mathematics

We study a 2D model of the orientation distribution of fibres in a paper machine headbox. The goal is to control the orientation of fibres at the outlet by shape variations. The mathematical formulation leads to an optimization problem with control in coefficients of a linear convection-diffusion equation as the state problem. Existence of solutions both to the state and the optimization problem is analyzed and sensitivity analysis is performed. Further, discretization is done and a numerical example...

Origins, analysis, numerical analysis, and numerical approximation of a forward-backward parabolic problem

A. Kadir Aziz, Donald A. French, Soren Jensen, R. Bruce Kellogg (2010)

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

We consider the analysis and numerical solution of a forward-backward boundary value problem. We provide some motivation, prove existence and uniqueness in a function class especially geared to the problem at hand, provide various energy estimates, prove a priori error estimates for the Galerkin method, and show the results of some numerical computations.

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