An Optimal EDG Method for Distributed Control of Convection Diffusion PDEs

Abstract

We propose an embedded discontinuous Galerkin (EDG) method to approximate the solution of a distributed control problem governed by convection diffusion PDEs, and obtain optimal a priori error estimates for the state, dual state, their fluxes, and the control. Moreover, we prove the optimize-then-discretize (OD) and discretize-then-optimize (DO) approaches coincide. Numerical results confirm our theoretical results.