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Mass-lumping discretization and solvers for distributed elliptic optimal control problems

Numerical Analysis 2023-05-01 v1 Numerical Analysis Optimization and Control

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of the use of mass-lumping in the finite element discretization of the reduced first-order optimality system arising from a standard tracking-type, distributed elliptic optimal control problem with L2L_2 regularization. We show that mass-lumping will not affect the L2L_2 error between the desired state and the computed state, but will lead to a Schur-complement system that allows for a fast matrix-by-vector multiplication. We show that the use of the Schur-Complement Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient method in a nested iteration setting leads to an asymptotically optimal solver with respect to the complexity.

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@article{arxiv.2304.14664,
  title  = {Mass-lumping discretization and solvers for distributed elliptic optimal control problems},
  author = {Ulrich Langer and Richard Löscher and Olaf Steinbach and Huidong Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.14664},
  year   = {2023}
}
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