Deep quench approximation and optimal control of general Cahn-Hilliard systems with fractional operators and double obstacle potentials

DOI10.3934/DCDSS.2020213MaRDI QIDQ1995412zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pierluigi Colli, Gianni Gilardi, Jürgen Sprekels

Publication date 23 February 2021

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series S (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01675

fractional operators optimal control necessary optimality conditions double obstacles

Initial value problems for second-order parabolic systems (35K45) Abstract parabolic equations (35K90) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations (49K20) Optimality conditions for problems in abstract spaces (49K27)

Abstract: The paper arXiv:1804.11290 contains well-posedness and regularity results for a system of evolutionary operator equations having the structure of a Cahn-Hilliard system. The operators appearing in the system equations were fractional versions in the spectral sense of general linear operators A and B having compact resolvents and are densely defined, unbounded, selfadjoint, and monotone in a Hilbert space of functions defined in a smooth domain. The associated double-well potentials driving the phase separation process modeled by the Cahn-Hilliard system could be of a very general type that includes standard physically meaningful cases such as polynomial, logarithmic, and double obstacle nonlinearities. In the subsequent paper arXiv:1807.03218, an analysis of distributed optimal control problems was performed for such evolutionary systems, where only the differentiable case of certain polynomial and logarithmic double-well potentials could be admitted. Results concerning existence of optimizers and first-order necessary optimality conditions were derived. In the present paper, we complement these results by studying a distributed control problem for such evolutionary systems in the case of nondifferentiable nonlinearities of double obstacle type. For such nonlinearities, it is well known that the standard constraint qualifications cannot be applied to construct appropriate Lagrange multipliers. To overcome this difficulty, we follow here the so-called "deep quench" method. We first give a general convergence analysis of the deep quench approximation that includes an error estimate and then demonstrate that its use leads in the double obstacle case to appropriate first-order necessary optimality conditions in terms of a variational inequality and the associated adjoint state system.

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