Robust finite element discretization and solvers for distributed elliptic optimal control problems

07/11/2022
by   Ulrich Langer, et al.
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We consider standard tracking-type, distributed elliptic optimal control problems with L^2 regularization, and their finite element discretization. We are investigating the L^2 error between the finite element approximation u_ϱ h of the state u_ϱ and the desired state (target) u̅ in terms of the regularization parameter ϱ and the mesh size h that leads to the optimal choice ϱ = h^4. It turns out that, for this choice of the regularization parameter, we can devise simple Jacobi-like preconditioned MINRES or Bramble-Pasciak CG methods that allow us to solve the reduced discrete optimality system in asymptotically optimal complexity with respect to the arithmetical operations and memory demand. The theoretical results are confirmed by several benchmark problems with targets of various regularities including discontinuous targets.

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