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Hauptverfasser: Dharmatti, Sheetal, K, Greeshma
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Dharmatti, Sheetal
K, Greeshma
author_facet Dharmatti, Sheetal
K, Greeshma
contents We study a pointwise tracking optimal control problem for the two-dimensional local Cahn Hilliard Navier Stokes system, which models the evolution of two immiscible, incompressible fluids. The source term in the Cahn Hilliard equation acts as a control, and the cost functional measures the deviation of the phase variable from desired values at a finite set of spatial points over time. This setting reflects realistic applications where only a limited number of sensors are available. We also study a variant of the above pointwise tracking control problem where the cost is incorporated with a terminal time pointwise tracking term. The main mathematical difficulty arises from the low regularity of the cost functional due to the pointwise evaluation of the state variables. We prove the existence of strong solutions, establish the existence of an optimal control, and the differentiability of the control to state mapping. We define the adjoint system using a transposition method to characterise optimal control. Moreover, a first-order necessary optimality condition is derived in terms of the adjoint for both problems. Furthermore, we prove that our analysis can be extended to the case of singular potentials.
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spellingShingle Pointwise Tracking Optimal Control Problem for Cahn Hilliard Navier Stokes system
Dharmatti, Sheetal
K, Greeshma
Optimization and Control
We study a pointwise tracking optimal control problem for the two-dimensional local Cahn Hilliard Navier Stokes system, which models the evolution of two immiscible, incompressible fluids. The source term in the Cahn Hilliard equation acts as a control, and the cost functional measures the deviation of the phase variable from desired values at a finite set of spatial points over time. This setting reflects realistic applications where only a limited number of sensors are available. We also study a variant of the above pointwise tracking control problem where the cost is incorporated with a terminal time pointwise tracking term. The main mathematical difficulty arises from the low regularity of the cost functional due to the pointwise evaluation of the state variables. We prove the existence of strong solutions, establish the existence of an optimal control, and the differentiability of the control to state mapping. We define the adjoint system using a transposition method to characterise optimal control. Moreover, a first-order necessary optimality condition is derived in terms of the adjoint for both problems. Furthermore, we prove that our analysis can be extended to the case of singular potentials.
title Pointwise Tracking Optimal Control Problem for Cahn Hilliard Navier Stokes system
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06447