Preconditioning for boundary control problems in incompressible fluid dynamics
For researchers in numerical optimization and fluid dynamics, this provides an incremental extension of existing preconditioning techniques to boundary control problems.
This work develops efficient preconditioners for boundary control problems governed by Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations, closing a gap in PDE-constrained optimization for incompressible fluid dynamics. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed preconditioner.
PDE-constrained optimization is a field of numerical analysis that combines the theory of PDEs, nonlinear optimization and numerical linear algebra. Optimization problems of this kind arise in many physical applications, prominently in incompressible fluid dynamics. In recent research, efficient solvers for optimization problems governed by the Stokes and Navier--Stokes equations have been developed which are mostly designed for distributed control. Our work closes a gap by showing the effectiveness of an appropriately modified preconditioner to the case of Stokes boundary control. We also discuss the applicability of an analogous preconditioner for Navier--Stokes boundary control and provide some numerical results.