Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4624331 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 2006 20 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this article sufficient optimality conditions are established for optimal control problems with pointwise convex control constraints. Here, the control is a function with values in Rn. The constraint is of the form u(x)∈U(x), where U is a set-valued mapping that is assumed to be measurable with convex and closed images. The second-order condition requires coercivity of the Lagrange function on a suitable subspace, which excludes strongly active constraints, together with first-order necessary conditions. It ensures local optimality of a reference function in an L∞-neighborhood. The analysis is done for a model problem namely the optimal distributed control of the instationary Navier–Stokes equations.

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