WIAS Preprint No. 1187, (2006)

Optimal boundary control of a phase field system modeling nonisothermal phase transitions



Authors

  • Lefter, Catalin
  • Sprekels, Jürgen
    ORCID: 0009-0000-0618-8604

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 49K20 35K55 80A22 49J20

Keywords

  • Phase-field system, phase transition, optimal control, necessary conditions

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.1187

Abstract

In this paper, we study an optimal control problem for a singular system of partial differential equations that models a nonisothermal phase transition with a nonconserved order parameter. The control acts through a third boundary condition for the absolute temperature and plays the role of the outside temperature. It is shown that the corresponding control-to-state mapping is well defined, and the existence of an optimal control and the first-order optimality conditions for a quadratic cost functional of Bolza type are established.

Appeared in

  • Adv. Math. Sci. Appl., 17 (2007) pp. 181-194.

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