A boundary control problem for the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions

A boundary control problem for the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equations with possibly singular potentials and dynamic boundary conditions is studied and first order necessary conditions for optimality are proved. Key words: Cahn-Hilliard equation, dynamic boundary conditions, phase separation, singular potentials, optimal control, optimality conditions, adjoint state syste

Optimal distributed control of a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard/Navier-Stokes system in 2D

We study a diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids coupling the Navier--Stokes system with a convective nonlocal Cahn--Hilliard equation in two dimensions of space. We apply recently proved well-posedness and regularity results in order to establish existence of optimal controls as well as first-order necessary optimality conditions for an associated optimal control problem in which a distributed control is applied to the fluid flow.Comment: 32 page

Optimal boundary control of a simplified Ericksen--Leslie system for nematic liquid crystal flows in 2D2D

In this paper, we investigate an optimal boundary control problem for a two dimensional simplified Ericksen--Leslie system modelling the incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows. The hydrodynamic system consists of the Navier--Stokes equations for the fluid velocity coupled with a convective Ginzburg--Landau type equation for the averaged molecular orientation. The fluid velocity is assumed to satisfy a no-slip boundary condition, while the molecular orientation is subject to a time-dependent Dirichlet boundary condition that corresponds to the strong anchoring condition for liquid crystals. We first establish the existence of optimal boundary controls. Then we show that the control-to-state operator is Fr\'echet differentiable between appropriate Banach spaces and derive first-order necessary optimality conditions in terms of a variational inequality involving the adjoint state variables

A Nonlinear Model Predictive Concept for Control of Two-Phase Flows Governed by the Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes System

Part 5: Flow ControlInternational audienceWe present a nonlinear model predictive framework for closed-loop control of two-phase flows governed by the Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes system. We adapt the concept for instantaneous control from [6,12,16] to construct distributed closed-loop control strategies for two-phase flows. It is well known that distributed instantaneous control is able to stabilize the Burger’s equation [16] and also the Navier-Stokes system [6,12]. In the present work we provide numerical investigations which indicate that distributed instantaneous control also is well suited to stabilize the Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes system