Variational Discretization for Optimal Control Governed by Convection Dominated Diffusion Equations

Abstract

In this paper, we study variational discretization for the constrained optimal control problem governed by convection dominated diffusion equations, where the state equation is approximated by the edge stabilization Galerkin method. A priori error estimates are derived for the state, the adjoint state and the control. Moreover, residual type a posteriori error estimates in the $L^2$-norm are obtained. Finally, two numerical experiments are presented to illustrate the theoretical results.