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    Lagrange multiplier and singular limit of double obstacle problems for Allen-Cahn equation with constraint
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2015) Farshbaf Shaker, Mohammad Hassan; Takeshi, Takeshi; Yamazaki, Noriaki; Kenmochi, Nobuyuki
    We consider an Allen--Cahn equation with a constraint of double obstacle-type. This constraint is a subdifferential of an indicator function on the closed interval, which is a multivalued function. In this paper we study the properties of the Lagrange multiplier to our equation. Also, we consider the singular limit of our system and clarify the limit of the solution and the Lagrange multiplier to our double obstacle problem. Moreover, we give some numerical experiments of our problem by using the Lagrange multiplier.
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    Singular limit of Allen-Cahn equation with constraints and its Lagrange multiplier
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2014) Farshbaf Shaker, Mohammad Hassan; Fukao, Takeshi; Yamazaki, Noriaki
    We consider the Allen-Cahn equation with constraint. Our constraint is the subdifferential of the indicator function on the closed interval, which is the multivalued function. In this paper we give the characterization of the Lagrange multiplier to our equation. Moreover, we consider the singular limit of our system and clarify the limit of the solution and the Lagrange multiplier to our problem.
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    A phase field approach for optimal boundary control of damage processes in two-dimensional viscoelastic media
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2015) Farshbaf Shaker, Mohammad Hassan; Heinemann, Christian
    In this work we investigate a phase field model for damage processes in two-dimensional viscoelastic media with nonhomogeneous Neumann data describing external boundary forces. In the first part we establish global-in-time existence, uniqueness, a priori estimates and continuous dependence of strong solutions on the data. The main difficulty is caused by the irreversibility as well as boundedness of the phase field variable which results in a doubly constrained PDE system. In the last part we consider an optimal control problem where a cost functional penalizes maximal deviations from prescribed damage profiles. The goal is to minimize the cost functional with respect to exterior forces acting on the boundary which play the role of the control variable in the considered model . To this end, we prove existence of minimizers and study a family of "local'' approximations via adapted cost functionals.
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    Optimal boundary control of a viscous Cahn-Hilliard system with dynamic boundary condition and double obstacle potentials
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2014) Colli, Pierluigi; Farshbaf Shaker, Mohammad Hassan; Gilardi, Gianni; Sprekels, Jürgen
    In this paper, we investigate optimal boundary control problems for Cahn--Hilliard variational inequalities with a dynamic boundary condition involving double obstacle potentials and the Laplace--Beltrami operator. The cost functional is of standard tracking type, and box constraints for the controls are prescribed. We prove existence of optimal controls and derive first-order necessary conditions of optimality. The general strategy, which follows the lines of the recent approach by Colli, Farshbaf-Shaker, Sprekels (see Appl. Math. Optim., 2014) to the (simpler) Allen--Cahn case, is the following: we use the results that were recently established by Colli, Gilardi, Sprekels in the preprint arXiv:1407.3916 [math.AP] for the case of (differentiable) logarithmic potentials and perform a so-called ``deep quench limit''. Using compactness and monotonicity arguments, it is shown that this strategy leads to the desired first-order necessary optimality conditions for the case of (non-differentiable) double obstacle potentials.
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    Optimal Neumann boundary control of a vibrating string with uncertain initial data and probabilistic terminal constraints
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2019) Farshbaf Shaker, Mohammad Hassan; Gugat, Martin; Heitsch, Holger; Henrion, René
    In optimal control problems, often initial data are required that are not known exactly in practice. In order to take into account this uncertainty, we consider optimal control problems for a system with an uncertain initial state. A finite terminal time is given. On account of the uncertainty of the initial state, it is not possible to prescribe an exact terminal state. Instead, we are looking for controls that steer the system into a given neighborhood of the desired terminal state with sufficiently high probability. This neighborhood is described in terms of an inequality for the terminal energy. The probabilistic constraint in the considered optimal control problem leads to optimal controls that are robust against the inevitable uncertainties of the initial state. We show the existence of such optimal controls. Numerical examples with optimal Neumann control of the wave equation are presented.
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    Second-order analysis of a boundary control problem for the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary condition
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2014) Colli, Pierluigi; Farshbaf Shaker, Mohammad Hassan; Gilardi, Gianni; Sprekels, Jürgen
    In this paper we establish second-order sufficient optimality conditions for a boundary control problem that has been introduced and studied by three of the authors in the preprint arXiv:1407.3916. This control problem regards the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation with possibly singular potentials and dynamic boundary conditions.