0. Historical Remarks 4
• The pioneers of optimal control theory
• Optimal control of ordinary differential equations
• Optimal control of partial differential equations
1. Introduction 35
1.1 Examples for convex problems 7
1.1.1 Optimal stationary heating
• Optimal boundary temperature
• Model problem
• First discussion
• Optimal temperature source
• Model problem
1.1.2 Optimal instationary heating
• Model problem 1.1.3 Optimal vibrating
• Model problem
1.2 Examples for non-convex problems 3
1.2.1 Problems with semilinear elliptic equations
• Heating by thermal radiation
• Ginzburg-Landau equation in supraconductivity
• Control of stationary currents
1.2.2 Problems with semilinear parabolic equations
• Examples
• Instationary fluid flow control
1.3 Classification of 2nd order partial differential equations 7 1.3.1 Formal classification
• Definitions: Discriminant of a partial differential equation, elliptic, parabolic, hyperbolic
• Standard examples and others
1.3.2 Non-formal classification of 2nd order partial differential equations
• Model problem
• Necessity of a classification
• Definitions: elliptic, parabolic, hyperbolic
• Examples and characteristic curves
• Suitable initial and boundary conditions
Assignment No 1: Classification of PDEs 12
1.4 Basic concepts of optimization in the finite dimensional case 18 1.4.1 Finite dimensional problems of optimal control
• Model problem
• Reformulation
1.4.2 Existence of optimal controls
• Definition: optimal control, optimal state
• Theorem 1.1: Existence theorem 1.4.3 First order necessary conditions
• Idea
• Notations
• Theorem 1.2: Variational inequality
• Example 1.4.4 Adjoint state
• Idea
• Definition: adjoint equation
• Example
• Simplification of gradient and directional derivative by means of the adjoint state
• Theorem 1.3: Unique solution of the adjoint equation, variational inequality
• First main result: Optimality system (necessary conditions)
• Example 1.4.5 Lagrange function
• Aim
• Definition: Lagrange function
• Reformulation of the optimality system 1.4.6 Discussion of the variational inequality
• Discussion
1.4.7 Formulation as Karush-Kuhn-Tucker system
• Eliminating inequality constraints
• Theorem 1.4: Existence of Lagrange multipliers, optimality system
• Definitions: (strongly) active inequality constraints2
• Critical cone3
• Theorem 1.5: Sufficient condition3
• Outlook on pde constrained optimization
2presented in Chapter 2.11.4
3not presented in course
2. Linear quadratic elliptic control problems 119
2.1 Normed vector spaces 3
• Normed linear spaces
• Convergence of sequences, Cauchy sequences
• Banach spaces
• Pre-Hilbert spaces
• Hilbert spaces
2.2 Sobolev spaces 10
2.2.1 Lp spaces
• Definition: Lp spaces
• Definition: L∞ spaces
• Notations: domain, closure, boundary of a domain
• Definition: support
• Notations: multi-index, partial derivatives
• Definition: Ck spaces 2.2.2 Regular domains
• Definition: domains of class Ck,1
• Introduction of a Lebesgue measure on the boundary of a domain 2.2.3 Weak derivatives and Sobolev spaces
• Formula of partial integration
• Definition: locally integrable
• Definition: weak derivative
• Example
• Definition: Sobolev spaces, Sobolev norms
• Definition: Closure, dense, Sobolev spaces with zero boundary conditions
• Theorem 2.1: Trace theorem
• Definition: Trace operator, trace
Assignment No 2: Sobolev spaces 11
2.3 Weak solution of elliptic equations 6
2.3.1 Poisson equation
• Model problem
• Variational formulation
• Definition: Weak solution, variational formulation
• Generalizations
• Lemma 2.2: Theorem of Lax-Milgram
• Lemma 2.3: Friedrichs’ inequality
• Theorem 2.4: Existence and uniqueness of the solution of the Poisson equation
2.3.2 Boundary conditions of third kind
• See exercises
2.3.3 Differential operators in divergence form
• See exercises
Assignment No 3: Theorems of Lax-Milgram and Riesz 9
Assignment No 4: Trace Lemma 12
Assignment No 5: Elliptic boundary value problems
in divergence form (add on) 7
2.4 Linear mappings 15
2.4.1 Linear continuous operators and functionals
• Definitions: linear, continuous, bounded operators, resp.functionals
• Theorem 2.5: Equivalence between boundness and continuity of linear operators
• Definitions: norm of an operator, space of all linear and continuous operators, dual space, norm of the dual space
• Theorem 2.6: Riesz’ representation theorem
• Definitions: bidual space, canonical embedding, reflexive spaces Assignment No 6: Linear Operators, linear Functionals, Lp spaces 8
2.4.2 Weak convergence
• Definitions: weakly convergent, weak limit point
• Some results on weakly convergent sequences
• Example of a weakly convergent sequence with limit point zero, but all elements lying on the unit sphere of the respective Hilbert space
• Some results for the application of the concept of weak convergence
• Definitions: weakly sequentially continuous, weakly sequentially closed, relatively weakly sequentially compact, weakly sequentially compact
• Examples for weakly sequentially continuous and non continuous ope- rators (functionals)
• Consequences and conclusions for latter applications
• Theorem 2.7: Every bounded set of a reflexive Banach space is rela- tively weakly sequentially compact
• Theorem 2.8: Every convex and closed set is weakly sequentially closed
• Definitions: convex functionals, weakly lower semi-continuous functio- nals
• Theorem 2.9: Every convex and continuous functional on a Banach space is weakly lower semicontinuous
• Example: norm
Assignment No 7: Weak convergence and related terms 8
2.5 Existence of optimal controls 15 2.5.1 Optimal stationary temperature control problem
with a distributed control
• Model problem: optimal stationary temperature control problem with a distributed control
• General assumptions of the chapter
• Choice of control space
• Set of admissible controls
• Application of Theorem 2.4
• Definitions: optimal control, optimal state
• Definition: the control-state operator
• A quadratic optimization problem in Hilbert space
• Theorem 2.10: Existence and uniqueness of an optimal solution of the quadratic optimization problem (1st version)
• Theorem 2.11: Existence and uniqueness of an optimal solution of the model problem (1st version)
• One-sided open admissible sets
• Theorem 2.12: Existence and uniqueness of an optimal solution of the quadratic optimization problem (2nd version)
• Theorem 2.13: Existence and uniqueness of an optimal solution of the model problem (2nd version)
• Model problem: optimal stationary temperature source with prescribed ambient temperature
• Results on existence and uniqueness
2.5.2 Optimal stationary temperature control problem with a boundary control
• A modified model problem: optimal stationary temperature control problem with a boundary control
• Theorem 2.14: Existence and uniqueness of an optimal solution 2.5.3 General elliptic equations and functionals
• A general optimal control problem
• General assumptions
• Existence and uniqueness of an optimal solution
2.6 Differentiablity in Banach spaces 8
2.6.1 Gˆateaux derivative
• Definitions: directional derivative, first variation, Gˆateaux derivative
• Example: The Gˆateaux derivative need not be linear
• Examples: among others: squared norm 2.6.2 Fr´echet derivative
• Definitions: Fr´echet differentiable, Fr´echet derivative
• Examples: among others: Fr´echet derivative of linear operators
• Theorem 2.15: Fr´echet differentiability implies Gˆateaux differentiablity
• Remark and Example: Counterexample that the reverse does not hold
• Chain rule
• Example
Assignment No 8: Gˆateaux and Fr´echet differentiability 6 Assignment No 9: Calculus of variations (add on) 14
2.7 Adjoint operators 4
• Motivation for the adjoint operator
• Definition: dual operator in Banach spaces
• Continuity of the dual operator
• Notation: duality pairing
• Definition: adjoint operator in Hilbert spaces
• Example: an integral operator
2.8 Necessary first order optimality conditions 24
2.8.1 Quadratic optimization problems in Hilbert spaces
• Problem statement (repetition)
• Lemma 2.16: A variational inequality as necessary condition
• Remarks
• Lemma 2.17: A variational inequality as sufficient condition
• Theorem 2.18: Necessary and sufficient condition
for the quadratic optimization problem in Hilbert space
• Rewriting of the variational inequality without the adjoint operator
2.8.2 Optimal stationary temperature control problem with a distributed control
• Problem statement (repetition)
• Determining the adjoint operator
• Lemma 2.19: Auxiliary lemma
• Lemma 2.20: Determination of the adjoint operator
• Remarks
• Adjoint state and optimality system
• Definition: adjoint equation, adjoint state
• Theorem 2.21: Necessary and sufficient condition
• Optimality system
• Pointwise discusion of the optimality conditions
• Lemma 2.22: Pointwise variational inequality
• Theorem 2.23: Minimum principles, sufficient conditions
• The weak minimum principle
• The minimum principle
• Corollary 2.24 to the weak minimum principle
• Consequences of the Corollary
• Theorem 2.25: Projection formula for the optimal control
• The unconstrained case
• Formulation as Karush Kuhn Tucker system
• Theorem 2.26: On complementarity conditions
• The Karush Kuhn Tucker form of the optimality system
• Definition: Lagrange multipliers
• The gradient of the objective function
• Lemma 2.27: On the gradient of the objective function
• Rewriting of the variational inequality using the gradient
2.8.3 Stationary temperature source and boundary conditions of third kind
• Problem statement
• Adjoint equation, optimality condition 2.8.4 Optimal stationary temperature control problem
with a boundary control
• Problem statement
• Adjoint equation, optimality condition
• Theorem 2.28: Necessary conditions
• Discussion of the variational inequality
• Theorem 2.29: Minimum principle
and projection formula for the optimal control
• The two cases: λ= 0 andλ >0 2.8.5 A linear optimal control problem
• Problem statement
• Optimality conditions
Assignment No 10: Optimality conditions 10
2.9 Construction of test problems 5
2.9.1 Bang-bang control
• Problem statement with free parameter functions
• Construction of an analytical solution
2.9.2 Distributed control and Neumann boundary conditions
• Problem statement with free parameter functions
• Construction of an analytical solution
2.10 The formal Lagrange principle 7
• Idea
• Exact versus formal Lagrange principle
• Procedures up to now versus from now on
• Example: Optimal stationary boundary control
• Discussion of mathematical inaccuracies
• Lagrange’s optimization problem
• Definition: Lagrange function
• Discussion of the formal Lagrange principle
Assignment No 11: The formal Lagrange principle 15
2.11 Numerical methods 19
2.11.1 The Conditional gradient method
• Formulation of the conditional gradient method in Hilbert spaces
• Algorithm
• Application to elliptic problems
• Discussion
2.11.2 Transcription method
• Transformation of the infinite dimensional problem into a finite dimen- sional problem
• Disussion
2.11.3 Transcription method: reduced form
• Discussion of the computational effort for the non-reduced form
• Establishing the reduced form
• Discussion of the reduced form
• Treatment of the reduced form
• Discussion 2.11.4 Active set strategies
• The infinite dimensional case
• Primal-dual active-set strategy
• Discussion
• Algorithm
• Discussion
• The finite dimensional case
• Primal-dual active-set algorithm
2.12 Some final remarks and ideas 3
• The adjoint state as multiplier
• Higher regularity of solutions Assignment No 12: Optimal control
of ordinary differential equations (add on)1 16
Assignment No 13: Novel problems I2 16
Assignment No 14: Novel problems II3 24
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2new in WS 2011/12
3new in WS 2011/12
3. Linear quadratic parabolic control problems 77
3.1 Introduction 6
• Elliptic versus parabolic problems
• Model problem
• Road map
• Derivation of optimality conditions by the formal Lagrange ansatz
• Compatibilty of boundary conditions and differential operator
• Set of admissible controls
• Derivation of optimality conditions (cont.)
Assignment No 20:4 Compatible formulation of parabolic equations and solution via Green’s function 4
3.2 The spacially one-dimensional case 17
3.2.1 One-dimensional model problems
• Model with boundary control
• Assumptions 3.1
• Some remarks of the modelling background
• Model with distributed control
3.2.2 Integral representation of solution — Green’s function
• Separation of variables, Fourier’s method
• Definition of linear operators, solution operator Assignment No 21:5 Spacially onedimensional parabolic
optimal control problems 9
3.2.3 Necessary optimality conditions
• The boundary control cases
• Lemma 3.2: Representation of the adjoint solution operator
• Theorem 3.3: Optimality conditions for the 1D case
• Lemma 3.4: The variational inequality for the 1D case
• Corollary: Projection formula
Assignment No 22:6 Abstract functions 6
3.2.4 The bang-bang principle
• Example with boundary control
• Theorem 3.5: The bang-bang principle
• Corollary 3.6: Uniqueness of optimal control
• Open problems
3.3 Weak solutions in W21,0(Q) 7
• Model problem
• General Assumptions 3.7
• Aim: What is a solution?
• Definition: The function space W21,0(Q)
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• Definition: Weak derivatives in W21,0(Q)
• Definition: The function space W21,1(Q)
• Formal derivation of a variational formulation
• Definition: Weak solution
• Theorem 3.8: Existence of a weak solution
• Corollary 3.9: Certain linear mappings
• Disadvantage of the variational formulation
3.4 Weak solutions in W(0, T) 22
3.4.1 Abstract functions
• Definition: Abstract functions
• Examples
• Other important abstract functions
• Definition: Space of continuous abstract functions
• Example
• Riemann integral on C([0, T], L2(Ω))
• Definition: Step function
• Definition: Measuarable abstract function
• Definition: Lp(a, b;X), 1≤p≤ ∞
• Definition: Blochner integral
• Example: L2(0, T;H1(Ω))
Assignment No 23:7 Parabolic optimal control problems I 8 3.4.2 Abstract functions and parabolic equations
• New variational formulation
• Future road map 3.4.3 Vector-valued distributions
• Aim: Derivation of a formula for partial integration for abstract functions
• Definition: Vector-valued distributions
• Definition: The Hilbert space W(0, T)
• Gelfand trippel
• Definition: Gelfand trippel
• Application to parabolic equations
• Theorem 3.10: W(0, T)֒→C([0, T], H)
• Corollary
• Theorem 3.11: Partial integration
• Corallary
3.4.4 Affiliation of weak solutions in W21,0(Q) to W(0, T)
• Aim: Weak solutions of parabolic equations belong to W(0, T)
• Theorem 3.12: Existence of weak solutions of parabolic equations in W(0, T)
• Theorem 3.13: Continuous dependency on data
• Corallary: Solution operator
• Results: Existence of yt, final variational formulation,
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3.5 Parabolic optimal control problems 4
• Aim: Parabolic optimal control problems and abstract functions
• General assumptions 3.14
3.5.1 Optimal instationary boundary control problems to track a prescribed final temperature distribution
• Model problem
• Associated abstract optimization problem
• Theorem 3.15: Existence and uniqueness of an optimal solution 3.5.2 Optimal instationary temperature source
Assignment No 24:8 Parabolic optimal control problems II 4
3.6 Necessary optimality conditions 21
• Road map
3.6.1 Auxiliary theorem for adjoint operator
• Lemma 3.16: Existence and uniqueness of solution of adjoint equation
• Theorem 3.17: Auxiliary theorem
3.6.2 Optimal instationary boundary temperature
• Theorem 3.18: Necessary and sufficient optimality conditions
• Minimum principles
• Optimality system 3.6.3 Generalisations
• Parabolic equations with general elliptic operator
• Parabolic equations in L2(0, T;V∗) Assignment No 25:9 Numerical solution
of parabolic optimal control problems 4
3.7 Numerical solution techniques 6
3.7.1 Gradient projection method
• Preliminary considerations
• The algorithm
3.7.2 Transformation to finite dimensional problem
• Gradient projection method
• The algorithm
• Remarks
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4.1 A semilinear elliptic model problem 17
4.1.1 Road map
• Example
• Overview
• Model problem 4.1.2 Solutions inH1(Ω)
• Idea
• Definitions: monotonous, strictly monotonous, coercive, hemi-continuous and strongly monotonous operators
• Analoga in R
• Theorem 4.1: On monotonous operators
• Weak formulation of semi-linear elliptic problems
• General assumptions 4.2
• General assumptions 4.3 (to be released lateron)
• Definition: Weak solution
• Theorem 4.4: Existence of H1(Ω)-weak solutions 4.1.3 Continuous Solutions
• Road map
• Theorem 4.5: Existence of bounded H1(Ω)-weak solutions
• Lemma 4.6: Continuous weak solution for a linear model problem
• Theorem 4.7: Continuous weak solution
of the semi-linear model problem (1st version)
• Theorem 4.8: Continuous weak solution
of the semi-linear model problem (2nd version)
Assignment No 15:10 Elliptic optimal control problems with data in the
dual space 5
4.2 Nemyzki operators 15
4.2.1 Continuity of Nemyzki operators
• Notation
• Definition: Nemyzki-operators or superposition operators
• Examples
• Carath´eodory condition
• Boundness condition
• Local Lipschitz condition
• Examples
• Lemma 4.9: Continuity of Nemyzki operators
• Remark: Lipschitz condition for Nemyzki operators
• Example
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4.2.2 Differentiability of Nemyzki operators
• Definition: k-th order boundness condition, k-th order local Lipschitz condition
• 1st order derivatives of Nemyzki operators in L∞(E)
• Example: sin(y)-operator is not differentiable from Lp(E) to Lp(E)
• Discussion of differentiablity of sin(y)-operator in other function spaces
• Lemma 4.10: Fr´echet-differentiability of Nemyzki operators in L∞(E)
• Corollary: Smoother generating functions depending ony only
• Continuously differentiable Nemyzki operators
• Definition: Continuous Fr´echet differentiability of Nemyzki operators
• Lemma 4.11: On continuously differentiable Nemyzki operators
• Example: Φ(y) =yn 4.2.3 Derivatives in other Lp-spaces
• Summary on continuity
• Summary on differentiablity
• Example: Φ(y) =yk
Assignment No 16:11 Frechet differentiabilty of Nemyzki operators 4
4.3 Existence of optimal solutions 11
4.3.1 General assumptions
• General Assumption 4.12
• Examples of functions satisfying these general assumptions 4.3.2 Distributed control
• Model problem: distributed control
• Definitions: optimal vs. locally optimal
• Properties of the objective functions
• Theorem 4.13: Existence of optimal control
• Proof of Theorem 4.13 via the Theorem of Rellich
• Remarks on the proof
Assignment No 1712 General functionals 3
4.4 The control-state operator 8
4.4.1 Distributed control
• Model problem
• Theorem 4.14: Lipschitz continuity of the solution operator
• Theorem 4.15: Differentiability of the solution operator
• Corollary 4.4.2 Boundary control
• Model problem
• Results
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4.5 Necessary optimality conditions 7 4.5.1 Distributed control
• Aim
• Variational inequality
• Linearized boundary value problem
• Definition of the adjoint state
• Lemma 4.16: Auxiliary Lemma
• Corollary: Variational inequality
• Theorem 4.17: Necessary condition
• Corollary 4.18: Minimum principle
• Example
• Example: Superconductivity 4.5.2 Boundary control
• Model problem
• Control-state operator
• Variational inequality
• Adjoint state
• Theorem 4.19: Necessary conditions
Assignment No 18:13 Semilinear elliptic optimal control problems 5
4.6 Application of the formal Lagrange principle 2
• General problem
• Definition of the Lagrange function
• Necessary conditions
Assignment No 19:14 Formal Lagrange Principle and Maximum Prinziple 7
4.7 Derivatives of second order 8
• Definition: twice Fr´echet differentiable
• Twice continuously Fr´echet differentiable
• Computation of norms
• Computation of F′′(u)
• Example: Nemyzki operator
• Theorem 4.20: Second derivatives of Nemyzki operators in L∞
• Counterexample
4.8 Optimality conditions of second order 28
4.8.1 Introduction — Two-norm discrepancy
• Theorem 4.21: Quadratic growth condition of the functional
• Counterexample
• Two norm discrepancy
• Example
• Resumee
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4.8.2 Distributed control
• Theorem 4.22: Second continuous Fr´echet derivative of the solution operator
• Second order Fr´echet derivative of the functional
• Definition: Lagrange function
• Second order Fr´echet derivative of Lagrange function
• Derivation of second order optimality conditions
• Auxiliary Lemma 4.23: Estimate for the second derivative of the functional
• Second order optimality conditions
• Definition: Critical cone
• Theorem 4.24: Second order necessary condition
• Lemma 4.25: Second order necessary condition (Lagrange version)
• Second order sufficient optimality conditions
• Another critical cone
• Remarks on the critical cones, strongly active constraints
• Theorem 4.26: Second order sufficient condition
• Lemma 4.27: Second order sufficient condition (Lagrange version) 4.8.3 Boundary control
• Model problem
• Lagrange function
• Second order optimality conditions
• Second derivative of theLagrange function
4.9 Numerical methods 8
4.9.1 Gradient projection method
• Some Remarks on the drawback of nonlinearities 4.9.2 Basic idea of SQP method
• Newton’s Method vs linear-quadratic optimization in finite dimensions
• The unconstrained case
• The constrained case
• Some Remarks to and Results for the SQP method 4.9.3 SQP method for elliptic problems
• Model problem (distributed control)
• Assumptions
• Linearization (unconstrained case)
• Constrained case
• Final remarks on SQP methods
5. Optimal Control of semilinear parabolic equations 77
5.1 A semilinear parabolic model problem 5
• A general model problem
• Assumptions 5.1: Measurability, monotonicity
• Remark on the unboundness of the nonlinear functions
• Assumptions 5.2: Uniform boundness, global Lipschitz condition
• Definition: Weak solution
• Lemma 5.3: Eistence and uniqueness of solutions
• Assumptions 5.3: Local boundness, Local Lipschitz condition
• Higher regularity of data
• Theorem 5.5: Existence and uniqueness of continuous solutions
5.2 General Assumptions 2
• C1,1-domains, differentiablity, boundness and Lipschitz conditions up to the order of two
5.3 Existence of optimal controls 8
• Model problem for distributed and boundary controls
• Definition: optimal, locally optimal
• Definition: convexity of objective functions
• Theorem 5.7: Existence of optimal control
5.4 Control-state operator 10
• Road map: Continuity and differentiability of the control-state opera- tor
• Theorem 5.8: Lipschitz continuity of the control-state operator
• Theorem 5.9: Fr´echet differentiablity of the control-state operator
• Remark on certain nonlinear problems concerning Lr spaces
• Example: Distributed control
• Example: Boundary control
5.5 Necessary optimality conditions 10
5.5.1 Distributed control
• Model problem
• Variational inequality
• Computation of f′
• Lemma 5.10: Elimination the state y(u) for all u∈Uad
• Corollary: Computation of the gradient of the objective functionals
• Theorem 5.11: Necessary condition
• Corollary: Minimum principles
• Example: Supraconductivity (Assignement No. 25)
5.5.2 Boundary control
• Model problem
• Computation of f′ and variational inequality
• Theorem 5.12: Necessary condition
• Example: Heat equation with Stefan-Bolzmann boundary condition (Assignement No. 25)
5.5.3 The general case
• Theorem 5.13: Necessary condition Assignment No 26:15 Fr´echet Derivatives
and second-order optimality conditions 5
5.6 Second-order optimality conditions 20
5.6.1 Second-order derivatives
• Theorem 5.14: Second-order differentiablity of the control-state operator
• Theorem 5.15: Second-order derivative of the control-state operator
5.6.2 Distributed control
• Variational inequality
• Formulation of second-order necessary conditions
• Definition: Strongly active constraints
• Definition: τ-critical cone
• Theorem 5.16: Second-order sufficient conditions
Assignment No 27:16 SQP methods 5
5.6.3 Boundary control
• Theorem 5.17: Second-order sufficient conditions
5.7 Test examples 8
• Road map: Method of constructing test examples
• Problem with control constraints (Assignement No. 27)
• Lemma 5.18: Global optimality of the solution (Assignement No. 27)
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5.8 Numerical methods 6
• General problem 5.8.1 Gradient method
• Algorithm: Gradient-projection method 5.8.2 SQP method
• Algorithm: SQP method
• Remarks: Convergence, modifications, outlook
5.9 Instationary Navier-Stokes Equations 8
• Some applications
• Simplified model problem
• Divergence free vector spaces
• Notations
• Definition: Weak solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations
• Theorem 5.19: Existence and uniqueness (Teman, 1979)
• Optimality conditions: First-order necessary conditions
• Adjoint Navier-Stokes Equations
• Variational inequality
• Remarks
6. Pontryagin’s maximum principles 6
6.1 Semilinear elliptic equations 4
6.1.1 Hamilton’s function
• Model problem
• Formal description
• Definition: Hamilton functions
• Necessary conditions 6.1.2 Maximum principle
• The maximum principle
• Remarks
6.2 Semilinear parabolic equations 2
• Model problem
• Definition: Hamilton functions
• Definition: Maximum principle
• Remarks
7. Optimization problems in Banach spaces 41
7.1 Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions 23
7.1.1 Convex problems
• The Lagrangmultiplier rule
• Definition: Convex cone
• Example
• Definition: Dual cone
• Examples
• Optimization problem in Banach spaces
• Definitions: Lagrange function, saddle point, Lagrange multiplier
• Definition: partially ordered
• Theorem 7.1: Necessary conditions for the convex case
• Slater condition
• Example: The interior of all non-negative functions in Lp (p <∞) is empty
• Remark
• Theorem 7.2: Necessary conditions under additional differentiablity assumptions
• Examples: One- and two-sided box constraints
• Remarks
7.1.2 Non-convex problems
• Definition: local solution
• Definition: associated Lagrange multplier
• Definition: regularity assumption of Kurzyusz and Zowe
• Theorem 7.3: Existence of a Lagrange multiplier
• Remarks
• Example
• Discussion of the regularity assumption of Kurzyusz and Zowe
• Examples: One- and two-sided box constraints
• Remark on sufficient conditions 7.1.3 A semilinear elliptic problem
• Problem formulation
• Necessary conditions
• Remarks
7.2 State constrained problems 18
7.2.1 Convex problems
• Model problem
• Formulation as optimization problem in Banach spaces
• Lagrange function
• Regularity assumptions and existence of a multiplier
• Adjoint equations
• Remarks on some difficulties involved with them
• Theorem 7.4: Necessary conditions for the convex case
• Box constraints
• Mimimization of point functionals
• Best approximation in the maximum norm 7.2.1 Non-convex problems
• Model problem
• Formulation as optimization problem in Banach spaces
• The two-step strategy
• Theorem 7.5 and 7.6: Necessary conditions for the non-convex case
• Theorem 7.7: Necessary conditions as Karush-Kuhn-Tucker system
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