WIAS Preprint No. 2266, (2016)

Distributed optimal control of a nonstandard nonlocal phase field system


Authors

  • Colli, Pierluigi
    ORCID: 0000-0002-7921-5041
  • Gilardi, Gianni
    ORCID: 0000-0002-0651-4307
  • Sprekels, Jürgen
    ORCID: 0009-0000-0618-8604

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 35K55 49K20 74A15

Keywords

  • Distributed optimal control, nonlinear phase field systems, nonlocal operators, first-order necessary optimality conditions

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2266

Abstract

We investigate a distributed optimal control problem for a nonlocal phase field model of viscous Cahn-Hilliard type. The model constitutes a nonlocal version of a model for two-species phase segregation on an atomic lattice under the presence of diffusion that has been studied in a series of papers by P. Podio-Guidugli and the present authors. The model consists of a highly nonlinear parabolic equation coupled to an ordinary differential equation. The latter equation contains both nonlocal and singular terms that render the analysis difficult. Standard arguments of optimal control theory do not apply directly, although the control constraints and the cost functional are of standard type. We show that the problem admits a solution, and we derive the first-order necessary conditions of optimality.

Appeared in

  • AIMS Math., 1 (2016), pp. 246--281.

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