Variational discretization approach applied to an optimal control problem with bounded measure controls

2020/03/31 by Evelyn Herberg, Herberg, Evelyn, Michael Hinze +1
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering #Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities #Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2003.14380

Abstract

We consider a parabolic optimal control problem with an initial measure control. The cost functional consists of a tracking term corresponding to the observation of the state at final time. Instead of a regularization term in the cost functional, we follow an approach by E. Casas and K. Kunisch and consider a bound on the measure norm of the initial control. The variational discretization of the problem together with the optimality conditions induce maximal discrete sparsity of the initial control, i.e. Dirac measures in space. We present numerical experiments to illustrate our approach.

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