Mixed Discontinuous Galerkin Time-Stepping Method for Linear Parabolic Optimal Control Problems

Mixed Discontinuous Galerkin Time-Stepping Method for Linear Parabolic Optimal Control Problems

Year:    2015

Author:    Tianliang Hou, Yanping Chen

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 33 (2015), Iss. 2 : pp. 158–178

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the mixed discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element approximation to linear parabolic optimal control problems. For the state variables and the co-state variables, the discontinuous finite element method is used for the time discretization and the Raviart-Thomas mixed finite element method is used for the space discretization. We do not discretize the space of admissible control but implicitly utilize the relation between co-state and control for the discretization of the control. We derive a priori error estimates for the lowest order mixed DG finite element approximation. Moveover, for the element of arbitrary order in space and time, we derive a posteriori $L^2(0, T ;L^2(Ω))$ error estimates for the scalar functions, assuming that only the underlying mesh is static. Finally, we present an example to confirm the theoretical result on a priori error estimates.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1211-m4267

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 33 (2015), Iss. 2 : pp. 158–178

Published online:    2015-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    21

Keywords:    A priori error estimates A posteriori error estimates Mixed finite element Discontinuous Galerkin method Parabolic control problems.

Author Details

Tianliang Hou

Yanping Chen