Mathematical analysis and optimal control of model for solidification

Author(s)

Welington Vieira Assunção

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica
• Defense date: 2007-02-23

Examining board members

José Luiz Boldrini; Arnaldo Simal do Nascimento; Marcelo da Silva Montenegro

• Advisor: José Luiz Boldrini

Abstract

In this work we study a system of nonlinear partial differential equations of parabolic type corresponding to a mathematical model of phase field type for problems of solidification of pure materials. This model is studied in "K. H. Hoffman e L. Jiang, Optimal control of a phase field model for solidification, Numer. Funct. Anal. Optimization 13 (1 & 2), 1992, pp. 11-27". The analysis of such system is done by putting the problem in a context of appropriate functional spaces in such way that the solution of the original problem corresponds to fixed point of a certain compact nonlinear operator. We describe results on existence, regularity and uniqueness of solutions for such model problem. We also study an optimal control problem associated to the previous problem, for which it is possible to obtain the existence of an optimal control and the corresponding necessary optimality conditions. Moreover, we study a model that is a generalization of the previous one and is presented in "C. Morosanu e D. Motreanu, A generalized phase field system, Journal of Math. Analysis and Applic. 237, 1999, pp. 515-540". For this generalized model, we consider similar questions as in the previous model and use to same tools to study them and get similar results (AU)