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Title:

Thermistor Problem: Multi-Dimensional Modelling, Optimization And Approximation

Authors:

Ciro D'Apice, Umberto De Maio, Peter I. Kogut

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(2018). ECMS 2018 Proceedings Edited by: Lars Nolle, Alexandra Burger, Christoph Tholen, Jens Werner, Jens Wellhausen European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi: 10.7148/2018-0005

 

ISSN: 2522-2422 (ONLINE)

ISSN: 2522-2414 (PRINT)

ISSN: 2522-2430 (CD-ROM)

 

32nd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation,

Wilhelmshaven, Germany, May 22nd – May 265h, 2018

 

 

Citation format:

Ciro D'Apice, Umberto De Maio, Peter I. Kogut (2018). Thermistor Problem: Multi-Dimensional Modelling, Optimization And Approximation, ECMS 2018 Proceedings Edited by: Lars Nolle, Alexandra Burger, Christoph Tholen, Jens Werner, Jens Wellhausen European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi: 10.7148/2018-0348

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7148/2018-0348

Abstract:

We consider a problem of an optimal control in coecients for the system of two coupled elliptic equations also known as thermistor problem which provides a simultaneous description of the electric field u = u(x) and temperature θ(x). The coef-ficients of operator div (A(x) θ(x)) are used as the controls in L∞(Ω). The optimal control prob-lem is to minimize the discrepancy between a given distribution θd Lr(Ω) and the temperature of thermistor θ W01,γ (Ω) by choosing an appropri-ate anisotropic heat conductivity matrix B. Basing on the perturbation theory of extremal problems and the concept of fictitious controls, we propose an “approximation approach” and discuss the ex-istence of the so-called quasi-optimal and optimal solutions to the given problem.

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