Existence, Uniqueness and Convergence of Simultaneous Distributed-Boundary Optimal Control Problems

zbMATH Open1329.49009arXiv1505.04154MaRDI QIDQ3456014FDOQ3456014

Authors: Claudia M. Gariboldi, Domingo A. Tarzia

Publication date: 11 December 2015

Abstract: We consider a steady-state heat conduction problem

P

for the Poisson equation with mixed boundary conditions in a bounded multidimensional domain

O m e g a

. We also consider a family of problems

P_{a l p h a}

for the same Poisson equation with mixed boundary conditions being

a l p h a > 0

the heat transfer coefficient defined on a portion

G a m m a_{1}

of the boundary. We formulate simultaneous emph{distributed and Neumann boundary} optimal control problems on the internal energy

g

within

O m e g a

and the heat flux

q

, defined on the complementary portion

G a m m a_{2}

of the boundary of

O m e g a

for quadratic cost functional. Here the control variable is the vector

(g, q)

. We prove existence and uniqueness of the optimal control

(o v e r l i n e o v e r l i n e g, o v e r l i n e o v e r l i n e q)

for the system state of

P

, and

(o v e r l i n e {o v e r l i n e g}_{a l p h a}, o v e r l i n e {o v e r l i n e q}_{a l p h a})

for the system state of

P_{a l p h a}

, for each

a l p h a > 0

, and we give the corresponding optimality conditions. We prove strong convergence, in suitable Sobolev spaces, of the vectorial optimal controls, system and adjoint states governed by the problems

P_{a l p h a}

to the corresponding vectorial optimal control, system and adjoint states governed by the problem

P

, when the parameter

a l p h a

goes to infinity. We also obtain estimations between the solutions of these vectorial optimal control problems and the solution of two scalar optimal control problems characterized by fixed