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Main Authors: DiFonzo, Fabio, Holst, Michael, Kimiaei, Morteza, Kungurtsev, Vyacheslav, Qiu, Songqiang
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14387
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author DiFonzo, Fabio
Holst, Michael
Kimiaei, Morteza
Kungurtsev, Vyacheslav
Qiu, Songqiang
author_facet DiFonzo, Fabio
Holst, Michael
Kimiaei, Morteza
Kungurtsev, Vyacheslav
Qiu, Songqiang
contents This paper examines aspirational requirements for software addressing mixed-integer optimization problems constrained by the nonlinear Shallow Water partial differential equations (PDEs), motivated by applications such as river-flow management in hydropower cascades. Realistic deployment of such software would require the simultaneous treatment of nonlinear and potentially non-smooth PDE dynamics, limited theoretical guarantees on the existence and regularity of control-to-state mappings under varying boundary conditions, and computational performance compatible with operational decision-making. In addition, practical settings motivate consideration of uncertainty arising from forecasts of demand, inflows, and environmental conditions. At present, the theoretical foundations, numerical optimization methods, and large-scale scientific computing tools required to address these challenges in a unified and tractable manner remain the subject of ongoing research across the associated research communities. Rather than proposing a complete solution, this work uses the problem as a case study to identify and organize the mathematical, algorithmic, and computational components that would be necessary for its realization. The resulting framework highlights open challenges and intermediate research directions, and may inform both more circumscribed related problems and the design of future large-scale collaborative efforts aimed at addressing such objectives.
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spellingShingle Towards Real Time Control of Water Engineering with Nonlinear Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
DiFonzo, Fabio
Holst, Michael
Kimiaei, Morteza
Kungurtsev, Vyacheslav
Qiu, Songqiang
Optimization and Control
This paper examines aspirational requirements for software addressing mixed-integer optimization problems constrained by the nonlinear Shallow Water partial differential equations (PDEs), motivated by applications such as river-flow management in hydropower cascades. Realistic deployment of such software would require the simultaneous treatment of nonlinear and potentially non-smooth PDE dynamics, limited theoretical guarantees on the existence and regularity of control-to-state mappings under varying boundary conditions, and computational performance compatible with operational decision-making. In addition, practical settings motivate consideration of uncertainty arising from forecasts of demand, inflows, and environmental conditions. At present, the theoretical foundations, numerical optimization methods, and large-scale scientific computing tools required to address these challenges in a unified and tractable manner remain the subject of ongoing research across the associated research communities. Rather than proposing a complete solution, this work uses the problem as a case study to identify and organize the mathematical, algorithmic, and computational components that would be necessary for its realization. The resulting framework highlights open challenges and intermediate research directions, and may inform both more circumscribed related problems and the design of future large-scale collaborative efforts aimed at addressing such objectives.
title Towards Real Time Control of Water Engineering with Nonlinear Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14387