Numerical Exact Controllability of the 1D Heat Equation: Duality and Carleman Weights

Enrique Fernández-Cara () and Arnaud Münch ()
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Enrique Fernández-Cara: University of Sevilla
Arnaud Münch: Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand 2)

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2014, vol. 163, issue 1, No 12, 253-285

Abstract: Abstract This article is devoted to the numerical computation of distributed null controls for the 1D heat equation. The goal is to compute a control that drives (a numerical approximation of) the solution from a prescribed initial state exactly to zero. We extend the earlier contribution of Carthel, Glowinski, and Lions, which is devoted to the computation of controls of minimal square-integrable norm. We start from some constrained extremal problems (involving unbounded weights in time), introduced by Fursikov and Imanuvilov, and we apply appropriate duality techniques. Then, we provide numerical approximations of the associated dual problems, and apply conjugate gradient algorithms. Finally, several experiments are presented, and we highlight the influence of the weights and analyze this approach in terms of robustness and efficiency. Also, the results are compared with others in a previous article of the authors, where primal methods were considered.

Keywords: Heat equation; Null controllability; Numerical solution; Duality; 35K35; 65M12; 93B40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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