Block preconditioners for elliptic PDE-constrained optimization problems (Q644858)

A quadratic distributed optimal control problem governed by an elliptic state equation is considered. Then the finite dimensional discrete analogue minimization problem corresponding to the finite element method applied to the weak formulation of the elliptic PDE is studied. The author introduces block-counter-diagonal and block-counter-tridiagonal preconditioning matrices for Krylov subspace methods such as generalized minimal residual (GMRES) and minimal residual (MINRES) methods. Explicit expressions are derived for the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors of the preconditioned matrices. Interesting numerical results and corresponding concluding remarks are given.