SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.48, No.8, 5468-5487, 2010
GOAL-ORIENTED ADAPTIVITY IN POINTWISE STATE CONSTRAINED OPTIMAL CONTROL OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
We derive primal-dual weighted goal-oriented a posteriori error estimates for pointwise state constrained optimal control problems for second order elliptic partial differential equations. The constraints give rise to a primal-dual weighted error term representing the mismatch in the complementarity system due to discretization. In the case of sufficiently regular active (or coincidence) sets and problem data, a further decomposition of the multiplier into a regular L(2)-part on the active set and a singular part concentrated on the boundary between the active and inactive set allows us to further characterize the mismatch error. The paper ends with a report on the behavior of the error estimates for test cases including the case of singular active sets consisting of only smooth curves or points.
Keywords:adaptive finite element method;a posteriori error estimate;pointwise state constraints;goal-oriented adaptivity;PDE-constrained optimization