Optimal Control Problem Governed by Weakly Coupled System on Induction Heating

In induction heating process, there is a problem of uniform heating. In this paper, an optimal applied electric field control problem for induction heating process of conductive materials is considered. The cost function is defined such that the temperature profile at the final stage has a relative uniform distribution in the field. The controlled system is a coupled by Maxwell???s equations with nonlinear heat equation. The existence of solutions for weakly coupled system is proved. We show that there exists an optimal applied electric field which minimizes the cost functional. Moreover, a fist-order necessary condition is derived.