Optimal control of the convection-diffusion equation using stabilized finite element methods

  • Authors:
  • Roland Becker;Boris Vexler

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées, BP 1155, 64013, PAU Cedex, France;Austrian Academy of Sciences, Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), BP 1155, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Numerische Mathematik
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we analyze the discretization of optimal control problems governed by convection-diffusion equations which are subject to pointwise control constraints. We present a stabilization scheme which leads to improved approximate solutions even on corse meshes in the convection dominated case. Moreover, the in general different approaches “optimize-then- discretize” and “discretize-then-optimize” coincide for the proposed discretization scheme. This allows for a symmetric optimality system at the discrete level and optimal order of convergence.