A damped elastodynamics system under the global injectivity condition: A hybrid optimal control problem

Sébastien Court

Published 2023-09-22Version 1

The purpose of this paper is to model mathematically certain mechanical aspects of defibrillation. The time deformation of the heart tissue is modeled with the elastodynamics equations dealing with the displacement field as main unknown. These equations are coupled with a pressure whose variations characterize the defibrillation process. The pressure variable corresponds to a Lagrange multiplier associated with the so-called global injectivity condition. We develop a hybrid optimal control approach in a general framework that covers in particular the maximization of the variations of this pressure, and also the time the maximum is reached. The control operator is distributed, and can be described in a form that corresponds to geometric aspects of the modeling. For mathematical convenience a damping term is added, and mathematical analysis based on the $L^p$-parabolic maximal regularity is provided for the state equations and the rigorous derivation of optimality conditions. Numerical simulations for a toy-model exploit these optimality conditions and illustrate the capacity of the approach.