Numerical analysis of a family of optimal distributed control problems governed by an elliptic variational inequality

Abstract

The numerical analysis of a family of distributed mixed optimal control problems governed by elliptic variational inequalities (with parameter $\alpha >0$) is obtained through the finite element method when its parameter $h\to 0$. We also obtain the limit of the discrete optimal control and the associated state system solutions when $\alpha \to \infty$ (for each $h>0$) and a commutative diagram for two continuous and two discrete optimal control and its associated state system solutions is obtained when $h\to 0$ and $\alpha \to \infty$. Moreover, the double convergence is also obtained when $(h,\alpha )\to (0,\infty )$.

arXiv comment20 pages, 1 Figure. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1412.6500