Computational Error Estimation and Adaptive Error Control for a Finite Element Solution of Launch Vehicle Trajectory Problems

DOI10.1137/S1064827599337732zbMath0956.65051OpenAlexW1970139221MaRDI QIDQ4509790

Michael Warner, Donald J. Estep, Dewey H. Hodges

Publication date: 19 October 2000

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/s1064827599337732

zbMATH Keywords

optimal controlnumerical examplesfinite element methodsa posteriori error estimatesdiscontinuous Galerkin methodsdifferential algebraic equationadaptive error controllaunch vehicletrajectory optimisationstability factorsvia mesh refinement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Newton-type methods (49M15) Implicit ordinary differential equations, differential-algebraic equations (34A09) Control of mechanical systems (70Q05) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Error bounds for numerical methods for ordinary differential equations (65L70) Numerical methods for differential-algebraic equations (65L80) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for ordinary differential equations (65L50)

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