Surface waves on steady perfect‐fluid flows with vorticity

This is a theory of two‐dimensional steady periodic surface waves on flows under gravity in which the given data are three quantities that are independent of time in the corresponding evolution problem: the volume of fluid per period, the circulation per period on the free stream line, and the rearrangement class (equivalently, the distribution function) of the vorticity field. A minimizer of the total energy per period among flows satisfying these three constraints is shown to be a weak solution of the surface wave problem for which the vorticity is a decreasing function of the stream function. This decreasing function can be thought of as an infinite‐dimensional Lagrange multiplier corresponding to the vorticity rearrangement class being specified in the minimization problem. (Note that functional dependence of vorticity on the stream function was not specified a priori but is part of the solution to the problem and ensures the flow is steady.) To illustrate the idea with a minimum of technical difficulties, the existence of nontrivial waves on the surface of a fluid flowing with a prescribed distribution of vorticity and confined beneath an elastic sheet is proved. The theory applies equally to irrotational flows and to flows with locally square‐integrable vorticity. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Discretized Energy Minimization in a Wave Guuide with point Sources

An anti-noise problem on a finite time interval is solved by minimization of a quadratic functional on the Hilbert space of square integrable controls. To this end, the one-dimensional wave equation with point sources and pointwise reflecting boundary conditions is decomposed into a system for the two propagating components of waves. Wellposedness of this system is proved for a class of data that includes piecewise linear initial conditions and piecewise constant forcing functions. It is shown that for such data the optimal piecewise constant control is the solution of a sparse linear system. Methods for its computational treatment are presented as well as examples of their applicability. The convergence of discrete approximations to the general optimization problem is demonstrated by finite element methods.     

An optimal control problem with feedback for a mathematical model of the motion of weakly concentrated water polymer solutions with objective derivative

We study a problem with feedback for a mathematical model of the motion of weakly concentrated water polymer solutions with smoothed Jaumann objective derivative. We prove the existence of an optimal solution yielding the minimum of a specified bounded lower semicontinuous quality functional. To establish the existence of an optimal solution, we use the topological approximation method for studying problems of hydrodynamics.     

On an optimal control problem for the shape of thin inclusions in elastic bodies

An optimal control problem is considered for a two-dimensional elastic body with a straight thin rigid inclusion and a crack adjacent to it. It is assumed that the thin rigid inclusion delaminates and has a kink. On the crack faces the boundary conditions are specified in the form of equalities and inequalities which describe the mutual nonpenetration of the crack faces. The derivative of the energy functional along the crack length is used as the objective functional, and the position of the kink point, as the control function. The existence is proved of the solution to the optimal control problem.     

An Optimal Control Problem in Coefficients for a Strongly Degenerate Parabolic Equation with Interior Degeneracy

We deal with an optimal control problem in coefficients for a strongly degenerate diffusion equation with interior degeneracy, which is due to the nonnegative diffusion coefficient vanishing with some rate at an interior point of a multi-dimensional space domain. The optimal controller is searched in the class of functions having essentially bounded partial derivatives. The existence of the state system and of the optimal control are proved in a functional framework constructed on weighted spaces. By an approximating control process, explicit approximating optimality conditions are deduced, and a representation theorem allows one to express the approximating optimal control as the solution to the eikonal equation. Under certain hypotheses, further properties of the approximating optimal control are proved, including uniqueness in some situations. The uniform convergence of a sequence of approximating controllers to the solution of the exact control problem is provided. The optimal controller is numerically constructed in a square domain.     

关于海洋动力学中二维的大尺度原始方程组(Ⅰ)

考虑地球物理学中大尺度海洋运动的二维原始方程组的初边值问题．先假定海洋的深度为正的常数．首先,当初始数据是平方可积时,应用Faedo-Galerkin方法,得到了这一问题整体弱解的存在性．其次,当初始数据及其它们关于垂直方向的导数均为平方可积时,应用Faedo-Galerkin方法和各向异性不等式,得到了上述初边值问题的整体弱强解的存在、唯一性．     

On the Motion of Agents across Terrain with Obstacles

The paper is devoted to finding the time optimal route of an agent travelling across a region from a given source point to a given target point. At each point of this region, a maximum allowed speed is specified. This speed limit may vary in time. The continuous statement of this problem and the case when the agent travels on a grid with square cells are considered. In the latter case, the time is also discrete, and the number of admissible directions of motion at each point in time is eight. The existence of an optimal solution of this problem is proved, and estimates of the approximate solution obtained on the grid are obtained. It is found that decreasing the size of cells below a certain limit does not further improve the approximation. These results can be used to estimate the quasi-optimal trajectory of the agent motion across the rugged terrain produced by an algorithm based on a cellular automaton that was earlier developed by the author.     

A family of trigonometric extremals in the problem of reorienting a spherically symmetrical body with minimum energy consumption

The problem of the optimal control of the reorientation of an absolutely rigid, spherically symmetric body is investigated. An integral quadratic functional, which characterizes the total energy consumption, is chosen as the criterion of the efficiency of the manoeuvre. The resultant torque of the applied external forces serves as the control. Application of the formalism of the Pontryagin's maximum principle leads to an analysis of a third-order non-linear vector differential equation, whose general solution is still unknown at the present time. It is shown that this equation has a particular solution described by trigonometric functions of time, which can be used to completely reconstruct the explicit solution for the corresponding extremal rotation. An analogy with the free rotation of a certain axisymmetric body is proposed.     

An optimal design problem for submerged bodies

The problem of finding the shape of a smooth body submerged in a fluid of finite depth which minimizes added mass or damping is considered. The optimal configuration is sought in a suitably constrained class so as to be physically meaningful and for which the mathematical problem of a submerged body with linearized free surface condition is uniquely solvable. The problem is formulated as a constrained optimization problem whose cost functional (e.g. added mass) is a domain functional. Continuity of the solution of the boundary value problem with respect to variations of the boundary is established in an appropriate function space setting and this is used to establish existence of an optimal solution. A variational inequality is derived for the optimal shape and it is shown how finite dimensional approximate solutions may be found.     

The dynamic programming method in systems with states in the form of distributions

The problem of optimal control of a system with the initial state in the form of a known distribution function specified on a fixed time segment is considered. To solve this problem, an approach is used in which the state of the system is understood as a coordinate distribution at each instant of time. Analogs of the equations in the Hamiltonian formalism for the problem of minimizing the integral functional are derived. The solution to the problem of optimal control in the closed form for a linear system with an integral quadratic functional is presented.     

Optimal control of a class of strongly nonlinear parabolic systems

This paper considers some typical optimal control problems for a class of strongly nonlinear parabolic systems. After some necessary preparation, it is shown that the family of admissible trajectories is a weakly closed and weakly sequentially compact subset of a reflexive Banach space and that the set of attainable states at any given time is a weakly compact subset of a Hilbert space. Using these basic results, proofs of existence of optimal controls are presented. A terminal control problem, a special Bolza problem, and a time optimal control problem are solved, and the necessary conditions of optimality for the corresponding control problems are given.     

Optimal <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript>1</Superscript>-Control in Coefficients for Dirichlet Elliptic Problems: <Emphasis Type="Italic">W</Emphasis>-Optimal Solutions

In this paper, we study a Dirichlet optimal control problem associated with a linear elliptic equation the coefficients of which we take as controls in the class of integrable functions. The coefficients may degenerate and, therefore, the problems may exhibit the so-called Lavrentieff phenomenon and non-uniqueness of weak solutions. We consider the solvability of this problem in the class of W-variational solutions. Using a concept of variational convergence of constrained minimization problems in variable spaces, we prove the existence of W-solutions to the optimal control problem and provide the way for their approximation. We emphasize that control problems of this type are important in material and topology optimization as well as in damage or life-cycle optimization.     

Optimal control of the viscous weakly dispersive Degasperis-Procesi equation

In this paper, we study the optimal control problem for the viscous weakly dispersive Degasperis-Procesi equation. We deduce the existence and uniqueness of a weak solution to this equation in a short interval by using the Galerkin method. Then, according to optimal control theories and distributed parameter system control theories, the optimal control of the viscous weakly dispersive Degasperis-Procesi equation under boundary conditions is given and the existence of an optimal solution to the viscous weakly dispersive Degasperis-Procesi equation is proved.     

An adaptive parameter approach for an approximate solution of optimal control problems

In this paper, we consider a class of nonlinear optimal control problems (Bolza-problems) with constraints of the control vector, initial and boundary conditions of the state vectors. The time interval is fixed. Our approach to parametrize both the state functions and the control functions is described by general piecewise polynomials with unknown coefficients (parameters), where a fixed partition of the time interval is used. Here each of these functions in a suitable way individually will be approximated by such polynomials. The optimal control problem thus is reduced to a mathematical programming problem for these parameters. The existence of an optimal solution is assumed. Convergence properties of this method are not considered in this paper.     

Robust State-Feedback Controllability of Linear Systems to a Hyperplane in a Class of Bounded Controls

The paper deals with a linear time-dependent dynamic system with scalar control and input uncertainty (disturbance). Two admissible classes of input uncertainty realizations are considered: the class of measurable bounded functions and the class of measurable quadratically integrable functions. The problem to be studied is the existence of a state feedback control with measurable bounded time realizations transferring the system to a given hyperplane (a target set) from any initial position in a prescribed time for any admissible input uncertainty realization. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of such a control are derived, based on the explicit construction of this control by using an auxilary zero-sum linear-quadratic differential game with a cheap control for the minimizing player. Examples illustrting the theoritical results are presented.     

Formulas that Represent Cauchy Problem Solution for Momentum and Position Schrödinger Equation

In the paper we derive two formulas representing solutions of Cauchy problem for two Schrödinger equations: one-dimensional momentum space equation with polynomial potential, and multidimensional position space equation with locally square integrable potential. The first equation is a constant coefficients particular case of an evolution equation with derivatives of arbitrary high order and variable coefficients that do not change over time, this general equation is solved in the paper. We construct a family of translation operators in the space of square integrable functions and then use methods of functional analysis based on Chernoff product formula to prove that this family approximates the solution-giving semigroup. This leads us to some formulas that express the solution for Cauchy problem in terms of initial condition and coefficients of the equations studied.

     

Regularization of the Cauchy problem for the Laplace equation

We suggest a method for regularizing the solution of the Cauchy problem for the Laplace equation by introducing the biharmonic operator with a small parameter. We show that if there exists a solution of the original problem, then the difference between the spectral expansions of solutions of the original and regularized equations tends to zero in the space of square integrable functions as the regularization parameter tends to zero. If the original solution belongs to a Sobolev class, then we use results of Il’in’s spectral theory to derive an estimate for the rate of the convergence of the regularized solution to the exact solution.     

A family of analytic extremals in problems of the optimal control of the rotation of a body

The problem of the optimal control of the rotation of an absolutely rigid body about the centre of mass is investigated. The main purpose of the control is to vary the angular velocity vector from its initial value to the required terminal value in a finite time so that the manoeuvre would require the smallest power consumption, which is characterized by an integral quadratic functional. The principal torque produced by the external forces applied to the body serves as the control. The change in orientation is not taken into account, i.e., the problem of the overspeed–braking control of the body, is studied. A new class of analytic extremals based on the use of space-time deformations of the solutions of the dynamical Euler equations for the free rotation of a rigid body is described. Sufficient conditions for the existence of such extremals for all types of symmetries are presented.     

Large time behavior of weakly coupled systems of first-order Hamilton–Jacobi equations

We show a large time behavior result for class of weakly coupled systems of first-order Hamilton–Jacobi equations in the periodic setting. We use a PDE approach to extend the convergence result proved by Namah and Roquejoffre (Commun. Partial. Differ. Equ. 24(5–6):883–893, 1999) in the scalar case. Our proof is based on new comparison, existence and regularity results for systems. An interpretation of the solution of the system in terms of an optimal control problem with switching is given.     

Optimal singular and chattering modes in the problem of controlling the vibrations of a string with clamped ends

The problem of minimizing the root mean square deviation of a uniform string with clamped ends from an equilibrium position is investigated. It is assumed that the initial conditions are specified and the ends of the string are clamped. The Fourier method is used, which enables the control problem with a partial differential equation to be reduced to a control problem with a denumerable system of ordinary differential equations. For the optimal control problem in the l₂ space obtained, it is proved that the optimal synthesis contains singular trajectories and chattering trajectories. For the initial problem of the optimal control of the vibrations of a string it is also proved that there is a unique solution for which the optimal control has a denumerable number of switchings in a finite time interval.