Some regional control problems for population dynamics

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Abstract: This paper deals with some control problems related to structured population dynamics with diffusion. Firstly, we investigate the regional control for an optimal harvesting problem (the control acts in a subregion omega of the whole domain Omega). Using the necessary optimality conditions, for a fixed omega, we get the structure of the harvesting effort which gives the maximum harvest; with this optimal effort we investigate the best choice of the subregion omega in order to maximize the harvest. We introduce an iterative numerical method to increase the total harvest at each iteration by changing the subregion where the effort acts. Numerical tests are used to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results. We also consider the problem of eradication of an age-structured pest population dynamics with diffusion and logistic term, which is a zero-stabilization problem with constraints. We derive a necessary condition and a sufficient condition for zero-stabilizability. We formulate a related optimal control problem which takes into account the cost of intervention in the subregion omega.



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