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## Deterministic control of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations

 Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Mathematik, Straße des 17. Juni 136, 10623 Berlin, Germany

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Received  February 2020 Revised  June 2020 Published  August 2020

Fund Project: The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the Collaborative Research Center 910 "Control of self-organizing nonlinear systems: Theoretical methods and concepts of application" (project A10)

We consider the control of semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) via deterministic controls. In the case of multiplicative noise, existence of optimal controls and necessary conditions for optimality are derived. In the case of additive noise, we obtain a representation for the gradient of the cost functional via adjoint calculus. The restriction to deterministic controls and additive noise avoids the necessity of introducing a backward SPDE. Based on this novel representation, we present a probabilistic nonlinear conjugate gradient descent method to approximate the optimal control, and apply our results to the stochastic Schlögl model. We also present some analysis in the case where the optimal control for the stochastic system differs from the optimal control for the deterministic system.

Citation: Wilhelm Stannat, Lukas Wessels. Deterministic control of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations. Evolution Equations & Control Theory, doi: 10.3934/eect.2020087
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Zhang, A survey of nonlinear conjugate gradient methods, Pac. J. Optim., 2 (2006), 35-58.   Google Scholar [15] I. Karatzas and S. E. Shreve, Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus, Springer, New York, 1991. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4612-0949-2.  Google Scholar [16] H. Lisei, Existence of optimal and $\varepsilon$-optimal controls for the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications, 51 (2002), 95-118.  doi: 10.1016/S0362-546X(01)00814-8.  Google Scholar [17] W. Liu and M. Röckner, Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction, Springer, Cham, 2015. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22354-4.  Google Scholar [18] G. J. Lord, C. E. Powell and T. Shardlow, An Introduction to Computational Stochastic PDEs, Cambridge University Press, 2014.  doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139017329.  Google Scholar [19] C. Marinelli and L. 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Tröltzsch, Analytical, optimal, and sparse optimal control of traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion systems, in Control of self-organizing nonlinear systems, (eds. E. Schöll, S. H. L. Klapp and P. Hövel), Springer, (2016), 189–210.  Google Scholar [25] F. Tröltzsch, Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2010. doi: 10.1090/gsm/112.  Google Scholar
Solution without Control in the Stochastic Case
Solution with Optimal Control, $\sigma = 0.5$
Solution without Control, $\sigma = 1$
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