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Optimal control problems for hyperbolic equations with damping terms involving p-Laplacian

Abstract

In this paper we study optimal control problems for the hyperbolic equations with a damping term involving p-Laplacian. We prove the existence of an optimal control and the Gâteaux differentiability of a solution mapping on control variables. And then we characterize the optimal controls by giving necessary conditions for optimality.

AMS Subject Classification:49K20, 93C20.

1 Introduction

In this paper, we are concerned with optimal control problems for the hyperbolic equation with a damping term involving p-Laplacian:

{ y y div ( | y | p 2 y ) = f in  Ω × ( 0 , ) , y = 0 on  Ω × ( 0 , ) , y ( x , 0 ) = y 0 ( x ) , y ( x , 0 ) = y 1 ( x ) in  x Ω ,
(1.1)

where Ω is a bounded domain in R N with sufficiently smooth boundary Ω, f is a forcing function, and y = y t , y = 2 y t 2 . The background of these variational problems are in physics, especially in solid mechanics. The precise hypotheses on the above system will be given in the next section.

Recently, much research has been devoted to the study of hemivariational inequalities [18]. The research works have mainly considered the existence of weak solutions for differential inclusions of various forms [2, 3, 5, 6, 9]. In particular, the case where the nonlinear wave equation includes a nonlinear damping term in a bounded domain was proved by many authors for both existence and nonexistence of global solutions [1014]. Especially, [15] showed the existence of global weak solutions for (1.1) and the asymptotic stability of the solution by using the Nakao lemma [9].

On the other hand, it is interesting to mention that optimal control problems for the equation of Kirchhoff type with a damping term have been studied by Hwang and Nakagiri [16]. We can find some articles about the studies on some kinds of semilinear partial differential equations and on quasilinear partial differential equations; see Ha and Nakagiri [17], Hwang and Nakagiri [18]. Based on these methods, we intend to study optimal control problems for the hyperbolic hemivariational inequality (1.1) due to the theory of Lions [19] in which the optimal control problems are surveyed on many types of linear partial differential equations.

Our goal in this paper is to extend the optimal control theory in the framework of Lions [19] to the hyperbolic equation (1.1) involving p-Laplacian with a damping term. Let H be a Hilbert space and let U be another Hilbert space of control variables, and B be a bounded linear operator from U into L 2 (0,T;H), which is called a controller. We formulate our optimal control problem as follows:

y (v) y (v)div ( | y ( v ) | p 2 y ( v ) ) =f+Bvin Ω×(0,).
(1.2)

The plan of this paper is as follows. In Section 2, the main results besides notations and assumptions are stated. In Section 3, we show the existence of an optimal control uU which minimizes the quadratic cost function. In Section 4, we characterize the optimal controls by giving necessary conditions for optimality. For this we prove the Gâteaux differentiability of the nonlinear mapping vy(v), which is used to define the associated adjoint system.

2 Preliminaries

Throughout this paper we denote

V= { y W 1 , 2 ( Ω ) : y = 0  on  Ω } ,(y,z)= Ω y(x)z(x)dx,y,zV.

For every q(1,), we denote q = L q ( Ω ) . For brevity, we denote 2 by . For a Banach space X, we denote by X the norm of X.

Define A:V V by

Ay,z= ( | y | p 2 y , z ) for all y,zV,

where V denotes the dual space of V and , the dual pairing between V and V . Then the operator A is bounded, monotone, hemicontinuous (see, e.g., [20]) and

Ay,y= y p p , A y , y = 1 p d d t y p p for yV.

Now, we formulate the following assumption:

  1. (H)

    We assume that p is an even natural number satisfying

    2p< ( N 1 ) p 2 ( N p ) +1(2p< if p=N).

Definition 2.1 A function y(x,t) is a weak solution to problem (1.1) if for every T>0, y satisfies y L (0,T;D()), y L 2 (0,T;D()) L (0,T;V), y L 2 (0,T;H). And for any zV and f L 2 (0,T;H), the following relations hold:

{ 0 T { y ( t ) , z + ( y ( t ) , z ) + ( | y ( t ) | p 2 y ( t ) , z ) } d t = 0 T ( f , z ) d t , y ( 0 ) = y 0 , y ( 0 ) = y 1 .

The following theorem is from Jeong et al. [15].

Theorem 2.1 Let assumptions (H) be satisfied. Then, for y 0 D(), y 1 V and f L 2 (0,T;H), problem (1.1) has a weak solution.

For any initial data ( y 0 , y 1 )D()×V, we define the solution space W= L (0,T;V) W 1 , 2 (0,T;V) W 2 , 2 (0,T;H) W 1 , (0,T;V).

Here we remark that W is continuously imbedded in C([0,T];V) C 1 ([0,T];V), so that we assume that there exists

| y ( t ) | <C, | d d t y ( t ) | <C.
(2.1)

Theorem 2.2 Assume that y 0 D(), y 1 V and f L 2 (0,T;H). The solution mapping p=( y 0 , y 1 ,f)y(p) of PD()×V× L 2 (0,T;H) into W is strongly continuous. Further, for each p 1 =( y 0 1 , y 1 1 , f 1 )P and p 2 =( y 0 2 , y 1 2 , f 2 )P, we have the inequality

(2.2)

Proof Due to [15], we can infer that a weak solution yW under the data condition p=( y 0 , y 1 ,f)D()×V× L 2 (0,T:H). Based on the above results, we prove the inequality (2.2). For that purpose, we denote y 1 y 2 y( p 1 )y( p 2 ) by ψ. Then we can observe from (1.1) that

{ ψ ψ div ( | y 1 | p 2 ψ ) = f 1 f 2 + div ( ε ( ψ ) ) in  ( 0 , ) , ψ = 0 on  ( 0 , ) , ψ ( 0 ) = y 0 1 y 0 2 , ψ ( 0 ) = y 1 1 y 1 2 in  Ω ,
(2.3)

where

ε ( ψ ) = ( | y 1 | p 2 | y 2 | p 2 ) y 2 = ( ψ , | y 1 | p 3 + + | y 2 | p 3 ) y 2 .
(2.4)

Multiplying both sides of (2.3) by ψ , we have

(2.5)

And we integrate (2.5) over [0,t] to have

(2.6)

The right member of (2.6) can be estimated as follows:

(2.7)
(2.8)
(2.9)

where c 0 , c 1 are constants. By using the boundedness of (2.1), we obtain (2.8) and (2.9). Finally, we replace the right-hand side of (2.6) by the right members of (2.7)-(2.9) and apply Gronwall’s inequality to the replaced inequality to obtain

(2.10)

where C is a constant. This completes the proof. □

3 Existence of an optimal control

Let U be a Hilbert space of control variables, and let B be a bounded linear operator from U into L 2 (0,T;H), which is denoted by

BL ( U , L 2 ( 0 , T ; H ) ) .
(3.1)

We consider the following nonlinear control system:

{ y ( v ) y ( v ) div ( | y ( v ) | p 2 y ( v ) ) = f + B v in  Ω × ( 0 , ) , y ( v ) = 0 on  Ω × ( 0 , ) , y ( v ; x , 0 ) = y 0 ( x ) , y ( v ; x , 0 ) = y 1 ( x ) in  Ω ,
(3.2)

where y 0 D(), y 1 V, and vU is a control. By virtue of Theorem 2.2 and (3.1), we can define uniquely the solution map vy(v) of U into W. We will call the solution y(v) of (3.2) the state of the control system (3.2). The observation of the state is assumed to be given by

z(v)=Cy(v),CL(W,M),
(3.3)

where C is an operator called the observer and M is a Hilbert space of observation variables. The quadratic cost function associated with the control system (3.2) is given by

J(v)= C y ( v ) z d M 2 + ( R v , v ) U for vU,
(3.4)

where z d M is a desired value of y(v) and RL(U,U) is symmetric and positive, i.e.,

( R v , v ) U = ( v , R v ) U d v U 2
(3.5)

for some d>0. Let U a d be a closed convex subset of U, which is called an admissible set. An element u U a d which attains the minimum of J(v) over U a d is called an optimal control for the cost function (3.4).

As indicated in Introduction, we need to show the existence of an optimal control and to give the characterizations of it. The existence of an optimal control u for the cost function (3.4) can be stated by the following theorem.

Theorem 3.1 Assume that the hypotheses of Theorem 2.2 are satisfied. Then there exists at least one optimal control u for the control problem (3.2) with (3.4).

Proof Set J= inf v U a d J(v). Since U a d is non-empty, there is a sequence { v n } in U such that

inf v U a d J(v)= lim n J( v n )=J.

Obviously, {J( v n )} is bounded in R + . Then by (3.5) there exists a constant K 0 >0 such that

d v n U 2 ( R v n , v n ) U J( v n ) K 0 .
(3.6)

This shows that { v n } is bounded in U. Since U a d is closed and convex, we can choose a subsequence (denoted again by { v n }) of { v n } and find a u U a d such that

v n uweakly in U
(3.7)

as n. From now on, each state y n =y( v n )W corresponding to v n is the solution of

{ y n ( t ) y n ( t ) div ( | y n ( t ) | p 2 y n ( t ) ) = f + B v n a.e.  t [ 0 , T ] , y n ( 0 ) = y 0 , y n ( 0 ) = y 1 .
(3.8)

By (3.6) the term B v n is estimated as

B v n L 2 ( 0 , T ; H ) B L ( U , L 2 ( 0 , T ; H ) ) v n U B L ( U , L 2 ( 0 , T ; H ) ) K 0 d 1 K 1 .
(3.9)

Hence it follows from the inequality (2.2), nothing y((0,0,0);t)0, that

| y n ( t ) | 2 + | y n ( t ) | 2 + 0 t | y n ( s ) | 2 dsC ( | y 0 | 2 + | y 1 | 2 + f L 2 ( 0 , T ; H ) 2 + K 1 2 )
(3.10)

for some C>0. Combining (3.10) and (3.8), we deduce that

{ y n }is bounded in W.
(3.11)

Therefore, by the extraction theorem of Rellich, we can find a subsequence of { y n }, say again { y n }, and find a yW such that

y n yweakly in W.
(3.12)

By using the fact that D()V is compact and by virtue of (3.11), we can refer to the result of Aubin-Lions Teman’s compact imbedding theorem (cf. Teman [21]) to verify that { y n } is precompact in L 2 (0,T;V). Hence there exists a subsequence { y n k }{ y n } such that

y n k ystrongly in  L 2 (0,T;V) as k.
(3.13)

Then we can choose a subsequence of { y n k }, denoted again by { y n k }, such that

y n k (t)y(t)in V for a.e. t[0,T].
(3.14)

Now we will show that

div ( | y n k | p 2 y n k ) div ( | y | p 2 y ) weakly in  L 2 ( 0 , T ; V )  as k.
(3.15)

Let ϕ() L 2 (0,T;V) be given. Then we have

(3.16)

Since | y ( t ) | p 2 ϕ L 2 (0,T;H), it follows from (3.13) and the Hölder inequality that the last term of (3.16) converges to 0 as k. By the continuous imbedding WC([0,T];V) and (3.12), we see that the set {| y n k (t)|:t[0,T],k=1,2,} is bounded with a bound M>0. Then, by the Schwartz inequality, the middle term of (3.16) is estimated by

(3.17)

We use (3.14) and apply the Lebesgue dominated convergence theorem to have that the term of (3.17) converges to 0 as k. This proves (3.15). We replace y n by y n k and take k in (3.8). Since y n k W are also the weak solutions, as in the standard argument in Dautray and Lions [22] and Lions and Magenes [23], we conclude that the limit y is a weak solution of

{ y + y div ( | y | p 2 y ) = f + B u in  Ω × ( 0 , ) , y = 0 on  Ω × ( 0 , ) , y ( x , 0 ) = y 0 ( x ) y ( x , 0 ) = y 1 ( x ) in  Ω .
(3.18)

Also, since equation (3.18) has a unique strong solution yW by Theorem 2.2, we conclude that y=y(v) in W by the uniqueness of solutions, which implies y( v n )y(u) weakly in W. Since C is continuous on W and M is lower semicontinuous, it follows that

C y ( u ) z d M lim inf n C y ( v n ) z d M .

It is also clear from lim inf n R 1 2 v n U R 1 2 u U that lim inf n ( R v n , v n ) U ( R u , u ) U . Hence

J= lim inf n J( v n )J(u).

But since J(u)J by definition, we conclude that J(u)= inf v U a d J(v). This completes the proof. □

4 Necessary condition for optimality

In this section we will characterize the optimal controls by giving necessary conditions for optimality. For this it is necessary to write down the necessary optimality condition

DJ(u)(vu)0for all v U a d
(4.1)

and to analyze (4.1) in view of the proper adjoint state system, where DJ(u) denotes the Gâteaux derivative of J(v) at v=u. That is, we have to prove that the mapping vy(v) of UW is Gâteaux differentiable at v=u. At first we can see the continuity of the mapping. The following lemma follows immediately from Theorem 2.2.

Lemma 4.1 Let wU be arbitrarily fixed. Then

lim λ 0 y(u+λw)=y(u) strongly in W.

The solution map vy(v) of U into W is said to be Gâteaux differentiable at v=u if for any wU there exists a Dy(u)L(U,W) such that

1 λ ( y ( u + λ w ) y ( u ) ) D y ( u ) w W 0 as λ0.

The operator Dy(u) denotes the Gâteaux derivative of y(u) at v=u and the function Dy(u)wW is called the Gâteaux derivative in the direction wU, which plays an important part in the nonlinear optimal control problem.

Theorem 4.1 The map vy(v) of U into W is Gâteaux differentiable at v=u and such a Gâteaux derivative of y(v) at v=u in the direction vuU, say z=Dy(u)(vu), is a unique strong solution of the following problem:

{ z z div ( | y ( u ) | p 2 z ) = ( p 2 ) | y ( u ) | p 3 div ( z y ( u ) ) + B w in Ω × ( 0 , ) , z = 0 on Ω × ( 0 , ) , z ( x , 0 ) = 0 , z ( x , 0 ) = 0 in Ω .
(4.2)

Proof Let λ(1,1), λ0. We set w=vu and

z λ = λ 1 ( y ( u + λ w ) y ( u ) ) .

Then z λ satisfies

{ z λ z λ = 1 λ { div ( | y ( u + λ w ) | p 2 y ( u + λ w ) ) z λ z λ = div ( | y ( u ) | p 2 y ( u ) ) } + B w , z λ ( 0 ) = 0 , z λ ( 0 ) = 0 in  Ω .
(4.3)

First we recall the simple equality

Multiplying the weak form of (4.3) by z λ and using the above equality, we have

(4.4)

We integrate (4.4) over [0,t] and use the integration by parts to have

(4.5)

By virtue of (2.2) and Young’s inequality, we can estimate each of the integrands of (4.5) as follows:

(4.6)
(4.7)
(4.8)

where C is a positive constant depending only on the data and α>0. Combining (4.5) with (4.6)-(4.8), we have

(4.9)

By applying Grownwall’s inequality to (4.9), we obtain

| z λ ( t ) | 2 + | z λ ( t ) | 2 + 0 t | z λ ( s ) | 2 ds C 1 B w L 2 ( 0 , T ; H ) 2 ,
(4.10)

where C 1 is a constant. The inequality (4.10) provides the boundedness of z λ and z λ in appropriate spaces, and hence via (4.3) we can infer that there exists a zW and a sequence { λ k }(1,1) tending to 0 such that

{ z λ k z weakly star in  L ( 0 , T ; V )  as  k , z λ k z weakly star in  L ( 0 , T ; H ) z λ k z and weakly in  L 2 ( 0 , T ; V )  as  k , z λ k z weakly in  L 2 ( 0 , T ; H )  as  k , z ( 0 ) = 0 , z ( 0 ) = 0 .
(4.11)

From Lemma 4.1 and (4.12), we can easily show that

| y ( u + λ k w ) | p 2 z λ k | y ( u ) | p 2 zweakly in  L 2 (0,T;H) as k.
(4.12)

By Lemma 4.1,

y(u+λw)y(u)strongly in C ( [ 0 , T ] ; H )
(4.13)

so that by (4.12)

( z λ k , y ( u + λ k w ) ) ( z , y ( u ) ) in  L (0,T).

This implies that

1 λ k ( | y ( u + λ k w ) | p 2 | y ( u ) | p 2 ) y(u)(p2) ( z λ , | y ( u ) | p 3 ) y(u).
(4.14)

Hence we can see from (4.11)-(4.13) that z λ z=Dy(u)w weakly in W as λ0 in which z is a strong solution of (4.2). This convergency can be improved by showing the strong convergence of { z λ } also in the topology of W.

Subtracting (4.3) from (4.2) and denoting z λ z by ϕ λ , we see that

{ ϕ λ ϕ λ div ( | y ( u + λ w ) | p 2 ϕ λ ) = div ( ε 1 ( y λ ) ) + div ( ε 2 ( y λ , z λ ) ) , ϕ λ ( 0 ) = 0 , ϕ λ ( 0 ) = 0 .
(4.15)

Here in (4.15), for λ(1,1), we set

From Lemma 4.1 and (4.14), we know that

ϵ 1 ( y λ ), ϵ 2 ( y λ , z λ )0strongly in  L 2 (0,T;H) as λ0.
(4.16)

To estimate ϕ λ , we multiply both sides of (4.15) by ϕ λ and integrate it over [0,t] and use integration by parts to have

(4.17)

The integral parts of the right member of (4.17) can be estimated as follows:

(4.18)
(4.19)

where C is a constant. We replace the right-hand side of (4.17) by the right members of (4.18)-(4.19) and we apply Gronwall’s inequality to the replaced inequality, then we arrive at

| ϕ λ ( t ) | 2 + | ϕ λ ( t ) | 2 + 0 t | ϕ λ ( s ) | 2 ds C 2 ϵ 1 ( y λ ) + ϵ 2 ( y λ , z λ ) L 2 ( 0 , T ; H ) 2 ,
(4.20)

where C 2 is a constant. By virtue (4.16) and (4.20), we deduce that

(4.21)
(4.22)

Finally, by means of (4.15), (4.21) and (4.22), it follows that

z λ ()z()strongly in W as λ0.
(4.23)

This completes the proof. □

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Ju, EY., Jeong, JM. Optimal control problems for hyperbolic equations with damping terms involving p-Laplacian. J Inequal Appl 2013, 92 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2013-92

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