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Research Article

Galerkin spectral approximation for optimal control problem of a fourth-order equation with L2-norm control constraint

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Pages 1344-1366 | Received 27 Mar 2021, Accepted 10 Aug 2021, Published online: 23 Sep 2021
 

Abstract

We investigate the Galerkin spectral approximation of an optimal control problem governed by a fourth-order partial differential equation (PDE), in which an L2-norm constraint on control variable is equipped. First, the optimality conditions for both the original control problem and its spectral approximation problem are, respectively, obtained. Then, a priori error estimates of the spectral approximation problem are established in detail. Next, a posteriori error estimates for the approximation problem are also investigated, which include not only H2-error estimate for the state and co-state but also L2-error estimate for the control, state and co-state. Finally, three numerical examples are executed to validate the theoretical analysis.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the editor and the anonymous referees for their very careful reading and constructive suggestions that improve the manuscript substantially.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11471036.

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