Distributed optimal control of a nonstandard nonlocal phase field system with double obstacle potential

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DOI10.3934/EECT.2017003zbMATH Open1364.35131arXiv1607.01991OpenAlexW2963726593MaRDI QIDQ501491FDOQ501491


Authors: Pierluigi Colli, Gianni Gilardi, Jürgen Sprekels Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 9 January 2017

Published in: Evolution Equations and Control Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is concerned with a distributed optimal control problem for a nonlocal phase field model of Cahn-Hilliard type, which is a nonlocal version of a model for two-species phase segregation on an atomic lattice under the presence of diffusion. The local model has been investigated in a series of papers by P. Podio-Guidugli and the present authors; the nonlocal model studied here consists of a highly nonlinear parabolic equation coupled to an ordinary differential inclusion of subdifferential type. The inclusion originates from a free energy containing the indicator function of the interval in which the order parameter of the phase segregation attains its values. It also contains a nonlocal term modeling long-range interactions. Due to the strong nonlinear couplings between the state variables (which even involve products with time derivatives), the analysis of the state system is difficult. In addition, the presence of the differential inclusion is the reason that standard arguments of optimal control theory cannot be applied to guarantee the existence of Lagrange multipliers. In this paper, we employ recent results proved for smooth logarithmic potentials and perform a so-called `deep quench' approximation to establish existence and first-order necessary optimality conditions for the nonsmooth case of the double obstacle potential.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01991




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