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Recovery Type A Posteriori Error Estimates of Fully Discrete Finite Element Methods for General Convex Parabolic Optimal Control Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2015

Yuelong Tang  and
Yanping Chen
Yuelong Tang*
Affiliation:
Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, Hunan, China
Yanping Chen*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, Guangdong, China
*
Corresponding author.Email address:tangyuelonga@163.com
Corresponding author.Email address:yanpingchen@scnu.edu.en
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Abstract

This paper is concerned with recovery type a posteriori error estimates of fully discrete finite element approximation for general convex parabolic optimal control problems with pointwise control constraints. The time discretization is based on the backward Euler method. The state and the adjoint state are approximated by piece-wise linear functions and the control is approximated by piecewise constant functions. We derive the superconvergence properties of finite element solutions. By using the superconvergence results, we obtain recovery type a posteriori error estimates. Some numerical examples are presented to verify the theoretical results.

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35B3749J2065N30General convex optimal control problemsfully discrete finite element approximationa posteriori error estimatessuperconvergencerecovery operator

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Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , November 2012 , pp. 573 - 591
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Copyright © Global Science Press Limited 2012

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