An approximating control design for optimal mixing by Stokes flows

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Abstract: We consider an approximating control design for optimal mixing of a non-dissipative scalar field heta in unsteady Stokes flows. The objective of our approach is to achieve optimal mixing at a given final time T>0, via the active control of the flow velocity v through boundary inputs. Due to the zero diffusivity of the scalar field heta, establishing the well-posedness of its G^{a}teaux derivative requires suptin[0,T]|ablaheta|L2<infty, which in turn demands the flow velocity field to satisfy the condition int0T|ablav|Linfty(Omega),dt<infty. This condition results in the need to penalize the time derivative of the boundary control in the cost functional. As a result, the optimality system becomes difficult to solve cite{hu2017boundary}. Our current approximating approach will provide a more transparent optimality system, with the set of admissible controls being L2 in both time and space. This is achieved by first introducing a small diffusivity to the scalar equation and then establishing a rigorous analysis of convergence of the approximating control problem to the original one as the diffusivity approaches to zero. Uniqueness of the optimal solution is obtained for the two dimensional case.




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