Some optimal control problems of multistate equations appearing in fluid mechanics (Q4031998)

Two optimal control problems associated to the steady-state Navier-Stokes equations are considered. These problems consist in minimizing a cost functional involving the vorticity in the fluid. The controls are the body forces or the heat flux on the boundary and the state is the velocity of the fluid. Existence of an optimal control is proved and some optimality conditions are derived. In both problems, the relation \(\text{control}\to\text{state}\) is multivalued. To overcome this difficulty, an approximate family of optimal control problems governed by a well-posed linear elliptic system is introduced and the optimality conditions for these problems are obtained.