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Pressure-robustness in the context of optimal control

Optimization and Control 2022-03-07 v1 Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis

Abstract

This paper studies the benefits of pressure-robust discretizations in the scope of optimal control of incompressible flows. Gradient forces that may appear in the data can have a negative impact on the accuracy of state and control and can only be correctly balanced if their L2L^2-orthogonality onto discretely divergence-free test functions is restored. Perfectly orthogonal divergence-free discretizations or divergence-free reconstructions of these test functions do the trick and lead to much better analytic a priori estimates that are also validated in numerical examples.

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@article{arxiv.2203.02224,
  title  = {Pressure-robustness in the context of optimal control},
  author = {Christian Merdon and Winnifried Wollner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.02224},
  year   = {2022}
}
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