Optimal boundary control of the heat equation with target function at terminal time

  • Authors:
  • Guangcao Ji;Clyde Martin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Institute for the Mathematics of the Life Sciences, Texas Tech University, Box 41042, Lubbock, TX;Department of Mathematics, Institute for the Mathematics of the Life Sciences, Texas Tech University, Box 41042, Lubbock, TX

  • Venue:
  • Applied Mathematics and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We consider the problem of optimally fitting a solution of the heat equation to a prescribed target function. We assume boundary control of the heat equation on a bounded domain. The problem arises in constructing the response surface to a two-dimensional set of experimental data.