C0 interior penalty methods for an elliptic distributed optimal control problem

Abstract: We consider C0 interior penalty methods for a linear-quadratic elliptic distributed optimal control problem with pointwise state constraints in two spatial dimensions, where the cost function tracks the state at points, curves and regions of the domain. Here we reformulate the optimal control problem into a problem that only involves the state, which is equivalent to a fourth-order variational inequality. We derive the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions from the variational inequality and find the regularity result of the solution. The reduced minimization problem is solved by a C0 interior penalty method. The discrete problem is solved efficiently by the primal-dual active set algorithm. We provide a convergence analysis and demonstrate the performance of the method through several numerical experiments.
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