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A Mesh-Independence Principle for Quadratic Penalties Applied to Semilinear Elliptic Boundary Control

Publication date: 20.12.2012

Schedae Informaticae, 2012, Volume 21, pp. 9 - 26

https://doi.org/10.4467/20838476SI.12.001.0811

Authors

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Christian Grossmann
Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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Max Winkler
Universität der Bundeswehr München , Neubiberg,Germany
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A Mesh-Independence Principle for Quadratic Penalties Applied to Semilinear Elliptic Boundary Control

Abstract

The quadratic loss penalty is a well known technique for optimization and control problems to treat constraints. In the present paper they are applied to handle control bounds in a boundary control problems with semilinear elliptic state equations. Unlike in the case of finite dimensional optimization for infinite dimensional problems the order of convergence could only be roughly estimated, but numerical experiments revealed a clearly better convergence behavior with constants independent of the dimension of the used discretization. The main result in the present paper is the proof of sharp convergence bounds for both, the finite und infinite dimensional problem with a mesh-independence in case of the discretization. Further, to achieve an efficient realization of penalty methods the principle of control reduction is applied, i.e. the control variable is represented by the adjoint state variable by means of
some nonlinear function. The resulting optimality system this way depends only on the state and adjoint state. This system is discretized by conforming linear finite elements. Numerical experiments show exactly the theoretically predicted behavior of the studied penalty technique.

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Information: Schedae Informaticae, 2012, Volume 21, pp. 9 - 26

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

A Mesh-Independence Principle for Quadratic Penalties Applied to Semilinear Elliptic Boundary Control

English:

A Mesh-Independence Principle for Quadratic Penalties Applied to Semilinear Elliptic Boundary Control

Authors

Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Universität der Bundeswehr München , Neubiberg,Germany

Published at: 20.12.2012

Article status: Open

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Christian Grossmann (Author) - 50%
Max Winkler (Author) - 50%

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