Elliptic Reconstruction and a Posteriori Error Estimates for Fully Discrete Semilinear Parabolic Optimal Control Problems

Elliptic Reconstruction and a Posteriori Error Estimates for Fully Discrete Semilinear Parabolic Optimal Control Problems

Year:    2022

Author:    Ram Manohar, Rajen Kumar Sinha

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 40 (2022), Iss. 2 : pp. 147–176

Abstract

This article studies a posteriori error analysis of fully discrete finite element approximations for semilinear parabolic optimal control problems. Based on elliptic reconstruction approach introduced earlier by Makridakis and Nochetto [25], a residual based a posteriori error estimators for the state, co-state and control variables are derived. The space discretization of the state and co-state variables is done by using the piecewise linear and continuous finite elements, whereas the piecewise constant functions are employed for the control variable. The temporal discretization is based on the backward Euler method. We derive a posteriori error estimates for the state, co-state and control variables in the $L^\infty(0,T;L^2(\Omega))$-norm. Finally, a numerical experiment  is performed to illustrate the performance of the derived estimators.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2009-m2019-0194

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 40 (2022), Iss. 2 : pp. 147–176

Published online:    2022-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    30

Keywords:    Semilinear parabolic optimal control problem Finite element method The backward Euler method Elliptic reconstruction A posteriori error estimates.

Author Details

Ram Manohar

Rajen Kumar Sinha