Necessary Optimality Conditions for a Dead Oil Isotherm Optimal Control Problem

We study a system of nonlinear partial differential equations resulting from the traditional modelling of oil engineering within the framework of the mechanics of a continuous medium. Recent results on the problem provide existence, uniqueness and regularity of the optimal solution. Here we obtain the first necessary optimality conditions. Work supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the Centre for Research in Optimization and Control (CEOC) of the University of Aveiro, cofinanced by the European Community fund FEDER/POCTI. The first author was also supported by the postdoctoral fellowship SFRH/BPD/20934/2004.