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

04/28/2023
by   Ulrich Langer, et al.
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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 L_2 regularization. We show that mass-lumping will not affect the L_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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