A Mixed Finite Element Scheme for Optimal Control Problems with Pointwise State Constraints

  • Authors:
  • Wei Gong;Ningning Yan

  • Affiliations:
  • LSEC, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 100190;LSEC, Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 100190

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a mixed variational scheme for optimal control problems with point-wise state constraints, the main idea is to reformulate the optimal control problems to a constrained minimization problem involving only the state, which is characterized by a fourth order variational inequality. Then mixed form based on this fourth order variational inequality is formulated and a direct numerical algorithm is proposed without the optimality conditions of underlying optimal control problems. The a priori and a posteriori error estimates are proved for the mixed finite element scheme. Numerical experiments confirm the efficiency of the new strategy.