A piecewise linear FEM for an optimal control problem of fractional operators: error analysis on curved domains

DOI10.1051/M2AN/2016065zbMATH Open1377.49030arXiv1508.02807OpenAlexW2962977111MaRDI QIDQ5367330FDOQ5367330

Authors: Enrique Otárola 

Publication date: 13 October 2017

Published in: ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose and analyze a new discretization technique for a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving the fractional powers of a symmetric and uniformly elliptic second oder operator; control constraints are considered. Since these fractional operators can be realized as the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for a nonuniformly elliptic equation, we recast our problem as a nonuniformly elliptic optimal control problem. The rapid decay of the solution to this problem suggests a truncation that is suitable for numerical approximation. We propose a fully discrete scheme that is based on piecewise linear functions on quasi-uniform meshes to approximate the optimal control and first-degree tensor product functions on anisotropic meshes for the optimal state variable. We provide an a priori error analysis that relies on derived Holder and Sobolev regularity estimates for the optimal variables and error estimates for an scheme that approximates fractional diffusion on curved domains; the latter being an extension of previous available results. The analysis is valid in any dimension. We conclude by presenting some numerical experiments that validate the derived error estimates.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02807

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zbMATH Keywords

finite elementsfractional diffusionanisotropic estimatescurved domainslinear-quadratic optimal control problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations (49J20) Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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