Numerical approximation of optimal flow control problems by a penalty method: error estimates and numerical results

SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1753-1777

  Hou, L S ^a,c   Ravindran, S S ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW CONTROL; GEOMETRY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; VORTEX FLOW;

PENALTY METHOD; SEQUENTIAL PROGRAMMING;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

EID: 0033294020     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827597325153     Document Type: Article

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