TY - JOUR T1 - Multigrid Solution of a Lavrentiev-Regularized State-Constrained Parabolic Control Problem JO - Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications VL - 1 SP - 1 EP - 18 PY - 2012 DA - 2012/05 SN - 5 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.2011.m12si01 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/nmtma/5925.html KW - Multigrid methods, Lavrentiev regularization, semismooth Newton methods, parabolic partial differential equations, optimal control theory. AB -

A mesh-independent, robust, and accurate multigrid scheme to solve a linear state-constrained parabolic optimal control problem is presented. We first consider a Lavrentiev regularization of the state-constrained optimization problem. Then, a multigrid scheme is designed for the numerical solution of the regularized optimality system. Central to this scheme is the construction of an iterative pointwise smoother which can be formulated as a local semismooth Newton iteration. Results of numerical experiments and theoretical two-grid local Fourier analysis estimates demonstrate that the proposed scheme is able to solve parabolic state-constrained optimality systems with textbook multigrid efficiency.