Optimal control of a multi-level dynamic model for biofuel production

Roberta Ghezzi; Benedetto Piccoli

doi:10.3934/mcrf.2017008

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2017, Volume 7, Issue 2: 235-257. Doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2017008

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Optimal control of a multi-level dynamic model for biofuel production

Roberta Ghezzi^1, , and
Benedetto Piccoli^2,

1.
Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, COMUE Université Bourgogne-Franche Comté, 9 Avenue Alain Savary, 21078 Dijon, France
2.
Department of Mathematical Sciences and Center, for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University 311 N 5^th St, 08102 Camden NJ, USA

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Received: February 29, 2016

Revised: September 30, 2016

Published: August 2017

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Dynamic flux balance analysis of a bioreactor is based on the coupling between a dynamic problem, which models the evolution of biomass, feeding substrates and metabolites, and a linear program, which encodes the metabolic activity inside cells. We cast the problem in the language of optimal control and propose a hybrid formulation to model the full coupling between macroscopic and microscopic level. On a given location of the hybrid system we analyze necessary conditions given by the Pontryagin Maximum Principle and discuss the presence of singular arcs. For the multi-input case, under suitable assumptions, we prove that generically with respect to initial conditions optimal controls are bang-bang. For the single-input case the result is even stronger as we show that optimal controls are bang-bang.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 49J15, 49J30, 49N90.

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