partial differential equations in fluid mechanics is started studying in 1980s by Fursikov when heestablished several theorems about the existence of optimal solutions to some optimal co
Trang 1MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HANOI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION
TRAN MINH NGUYET
SOME OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS
FOR NAVIER-STOKES-VOIGT EQUATIONS
SUMMARY OF DOCTORAL THESIS IN MATHEMATICS
Speciality: Differential and Integral Equations Speciality Code: 9 46 01 03
HA NOI, 2019
Trang 2This dissertation has been written at Hanoi National University of Education
Supervisor: Prof Dr Cung The Anh
Referee 1: Prof D.Sc Vu Ngoc Phat
Institute of Mathematics - VAST
Referee 2: Assoc Prof Dr Nguyen Sinh Bay
Thuong Mai University
Referee 3: Assoc Prof Dr Tran Dinh Ke
Hanoi National University of Education
The thesis shall be defended at the University level Thesis Assessment Council at HanoiNational University of Education on ………
This thesis can be found in:
- The National Library of Vietnam;
- Library of Hanoi National University of Education
Trang 31 Literature survey and motivation
The Navier-Stokes-Voigt equations was first introduced by Oskolkov (1973) as a model ofmotion of certain linear viscoelastic incompressible fluids This system was also proposed by
Cao, Lunasin and Titi (2006) as a regularization, for small values of α, of the 3D Navier-Stokes
equations for the sake of direct numerical simulations In fact, the Navier-Stokes-Voigt system
belongs to the so-called α-models in fluid mechanics (see Holst, Lunasin and Tsogtgerel (2010)), but it has attractive advantage over other α-models in that one does not need to impose any
additional artificial boundary condition (besides the Dirichlet boundary conditions) to get theglobal well-posedness
In the past years, the existence and long-time behavior of solutions to the Voigt equations has attracted the attention of many mathematicians In bounded domains orunbounded domains satisfying the Poincaré inequality, there are many results on the existenceand long-time behavior of solutions in terms of existence of attractors for Navier-Stokes-Voigtequations, see e.g V.K Kalantarov and E.S Titi (2009), G Yue and C.K Zhong (2011), J.García-Luengo, P Marín-Rubio and J Real (2012), Y Qin, X Yang and X Liu (2012), C.T.Anh and P.T Trang (2013), M Conti Zalati and C.G Gal (2015), P.D Damázio, P Manholiand A.L Silvestre (2016) In the whole space R3, the existence and decay rates of solutionshave been studied recently (see C Zhao and H Zhu (2015), C.T Anh and P.T Trang (2016),C.J Niche (2016))
Navier-Stokes-The optimal control theory has been developed rapidly in the past few decades and become
an important and separate field of applied mathematics The optimal control of ordinarydifferential equations is of interest for its applications in many fileds such as aviation andspace technology, robotics, the control of chemical processes However, in many situations,the processes to be optimized may not be modeled by ordinary differential equations, insteadpartial equations are used For example, heat conduction, diffusion, electromagnetic waves,fluid flows can be modeled by partial differential equations In particular, optimal control of
Trang 4partial differential equations in fluid mechanics is started studying in 1980s by Fursikov when heestablished several theorems about the existence of optimal solutions to some optimal controlproblems governed by Navier-Stokes equations.
One of the most important objectives of optimal control theory is to obtain necessary (orpossibly necessary and sufficient) conditions for the control to be an extremum Since thepioneering work of Abergel and Temam in 1990, where the first optimality conditions to theoptimal control problem for fluid flows can be found, this matter has been studied very inten-sively by many authors, and in various research directions such as distributed optimal control,time optimal control, boundary optimal control and sparse optimal control Let us brieflyreview some results on optimality conditions of optimal control problems governed by Navier-Stokes equations that is one of the most important equations in fluid mechanics For distributedcontrol problems, this matter was studied by H.O Fattorini and S Sritharan (1994), M D.Gunzburger and S Manservisi (1999), M Hinze and K Kunisch (2001), F Tröltzsch and D.Wachsmuth (2006) These works are all in the case of absence of state constraints In thecase of the present of state constraints, the problem was investigated by G Wang (2002) andLiu (2010) The time optimal control problem of Navier-Stokes equations was investigated
by Barbu (1997) and E Fernandez-Cara (2012) Optimal boundary control problems of theNavier-Stokes equations have been studied by many authors, see for instance, M.D Gunzburger,L.S Hou and Th.P Svobodny (1991), J.C De Los Reyes and K Kunisch (2005), C John and
D Wachsmuth (2009), M Holst, E Lunasin and G Tsogtgerel (2010) in the stationary case,and M Berggren (1998), A.V Fursikov, M.D Gunzburger and L.S Hou (1998, 2005), M.D.Gunzburger and S Manservisi (2000), M Hinze and K Kunisch (2004), M Colin and P Fab-rie (2010) in the nonstationary case We can see also the habilitation by M Hinze (2002), thetheses by M Sandro (1997), D Wachsmuth (2006) and references therein, for other works onoptimal control of Navier-Stokes equations
As described above, the unique existence and long-time behavior of solutions to the Stokes-Voigt equations, as well as the optimal control problems for fluid flows, in particularfor Navier-Stokes equations, have been considered by many mathematicians However, to thebest of our knowledge, the optimal control of 3D Navier-Stokes-Voigt equations has not been
Navier-studied before This is our motivation to choose the topic ”Some optimal control problems for Navier-Stokes-Voigt equations” Because of the physical and practical significance, one
only considers Navier-Stokes-Voigt equations in the case of three or two dimensions The thesispresents results on some optimal control problems for this equations in the three-dimensionalspace (the most physically meaningful case) However, all results of the thesis are still true
Trang 5in the two-dimensional one (with very similar statements of results and corresponding proofs).Namely, we will study the following problems:
(P1) The distributed optimal control problem of the nonstationary three dimensional Stokes-Voigt equations, where the objective functional is of quadratic form and the distributedcontrol belongs to a non-empty, closed, convex subset,
(P2) The time optimal control problem of the nonstationary three dimensional Stokes-Voigt equations, where the set of admissible controls is an arbitrary non-empty, closed,convex subset,
(P3) The boundary optimal control problem of the nonstationary three dimensional Stokes-Voigt equations, where the objective functional is of quadratic form and the boundarycontrol variable has to satisfy some compatibility conditions
3 The structure and results of the dissertation
The dissertation has four chapters and a list of references
Chapter 1 collects several basic concepts and facts on Sobolev spaces and partial differentialequations associated with solutions of Navier-Stokes-Voigt equations as well as some auxiliaryresults
Chapter 2 presents results on the distributed optimal control problem governed by Stokes-Voigt equations
Navier-Chapter 3 provides results on the time optimal control problem governed by Voigt equations
Stokes-Chapter 4 presents results on the boundary optimal control problem governed by Stokes-Voigt equations
Trang 6Navier-The results obtained in Chapters 2, 3 and 4 are answers for the problems (P1), (P2), (P3),respectively.
Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 are based on the content of the papers [CT1], [CT2] in the
List of Publications which were published in the journals Numerical Functional Analysis and
Optimization and Applied Mathematics and Optimization, respectively The results of Chapter
4 is the content of the work [CT3] in the List of Publications, which has been submitted forpublication
Trang 71 Function spaces
• L p and Sobolev spaces: L p (Ω), W m,p (Ω), H m (Ω) (m ∈ N), H s (Ω) (s ∈ R), s ≥ 0,
H s(Γ)
• Spaces of abstract functions: L p (0, T ; X), 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞, W 1,p (0, T ; X).
2 Some useful inequalities: Hölder inequality, Poincaré’s inequality, Gronwall’s inequality,
Young’s inequality with ϵ.
3 Continuous and compact imbeddings: Rellich-Kondrachov theorem, imbeddings in stract function spaces
ab-4 Operators: the trilinear form, the operator grad, the continuous linear operators andbilinear operators
5 The unique existence of solutions to the nonstationary 3D Navier-Stokes-Voigt equationswith homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions
6 Some auxiliary results on linearized equations: the definition of weak solutions and someproperties of weak solutions
7 Some definitions in Convex Analysis: the normal cone and the polar cone of tangents of
a convex subset in a Hilbert space
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Let Ω be a bounded domain in R3 with locally Lipschitz boundary Γ and T > 0 be a fixed final time Denote by Q the cylinder Ω × (0, T ) In this chapter, we consider the minimization
of the following quadratic objective functional
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• The initial value y0 is a given function in V The desired states have to satisfy y T ∈ V
and y Q ∈ L2(Q).
• The coefficients α T , α Q are non-negative real numbers, where at least one of them is
positive to get a non-trivial objective functional The regularization parameter γ, which
measures the cost of the control, is also a positive number
• The set of admissible controls, denoted by U ad, is non-empty, convex, closed in L2(Q) Finding u to minimize J(y, u) means that one want to find a control that satisfies a numerous purposes: the corresponding state is closed to the desired state y Q during the whole period of
time (0, T ) and closed to the desired state y T at final time T , and the cost is low (expressed through the point that the norm of u is small).
We can reformulate the given optimal control problem as follows: Find
min J (y, u),
subject to the state equations
Navier-is to calculate the directional derivatives of the objective functional directly instead of usingLagrange multiplier method We choose this approach because we think that our approachseems to be natural since it uses only simple ideas, such as finding an extremum of a real-valued function of one variable Our approach also leads to an explicit form of second-orderoptimality conditions, which doesn’t perform through second derivatives of Lagrange function
as usual, although after some calculations the values of the two forms are equal We also usethe same approach when dealing with the two other control problems considered in Chapter
3 and 4 To prove the second-order sufficient optimality conditions, we use the contradictionarguments as that were used by D Wachsmuth (2006) for 2D Navier-Stokes equations, where
Trang 10an optimal control problem of this system with a quadratic objective functional and controlbox constraints was investigated.
In three-dimensional space, due to the unique existence of the weak solution of the Stokes-Voigt equations, we do not face the difficulties that other authors have encounteredwhen studying distributed optimal control problems for Navier-Stokes equations Also for thisreason, the optimal problem we are considering shares some similarities with the optimal controlproblem for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations considered by D Wachsmuth (2006) He workedwith box constraint, but we choose the set of admissible controls to be an arbitrary non-empty,convex, closed set When dealing with box constraints, one can prove that each direction in thecone T U ad(¯ ∩ C(¯u) is a limit of a sequence of directions in the cone F U ad(¯ ∩ C(¯u) (see (2.32)
Navier-for the definition of C(¯u)) This is the essential point that D Wachsmuth used to establish
the second-order optimality condition However, because of the choice that admissible controlsbelong to an arbitrary non-empty, convex, closed subset, we have no way to get a similarapproximation when the optimal control ¯u does not belong to the interior of the admissible
control set Therefore, we can not establish the second-order necessary optimality conditions.However, if we choose the admissible control set as D Wachsmuth does, we can also use theabove approximation to obtain a similar conditions
2.2 Existence of optimal solutions
First, we give some definitions of solutions to the optimal control problem above
Definition 2.2.1 (i) A control ¯u ∈ U ad is said to be globally optimal if
J (¯ y, ¯ u) ≤ J(y, u), ∀u ∈ U ad
(ii) A control ¯u ∈ U ad is said to be locally optimal if there exists a constant ρ > 0 such that
J (¯ y, ¯ u) ≤ J(y, u)
holds for all u ∈ U ad with ku − ¯ukL2(Q) ≤ ρ.
Here, ¯y and y denote the states associated with ¯ u and u, respectively.
The following theorem shows the existence of an optimal solution, which is proved by lowing a standard technique for optimal control problems
fol-Theorem 2.2.2 The optimal control problem admits a globally optimal solution ¯ u ∈ U ad with associated state ¯ y ∈ W 1,2 (0, T ; V ).
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Assume that ¯u is a locally optimal control with associated state ¯ y Let us introduce the
The first-order necessary optimality conditions are given in the theorem below
Theorem 2.3.3 Let ¯ u be a locally optimal control with associated state ¯ y Then there exists w, which is the unique weak solution of the adjoint equations (2.9) on the interval (0, T ) Moreover,
Q (w + γ ¯ u) · hdxdt ≥ 0, ∀h ∈ T U ad(¯u). (2.11)
Here, T U ad(¯u) is the polar cone of tangents of U ad at ¯ u As a special case, the variational
Q (w + γ ¯ u) · (v − ¯u) ≥ 0, ∀v ∈ U ad
is satisfied.
2.4 Second-order sufficient optimality conditions
A sufficient condition for a control to be an optimal solution is given in the theorem below(condition (2.30)) Furthermore, by this theorem we achieve quadratical growth with respect
to the L2-norm of the objective functional in a L2-neighborhood of the optimal solution (see(2.33))
Theorem 2.4.1 Let ¯ v = (¯ y, ¯ u) be the admissible pair and suppose that ¯ v satisfies together with the adjoint state w the first-order necessary optimality conditions, i.e the equations (2.9) and the inequality (2.11) Furthermore, we assume that the pair ¯ v = (¯ y, ¯ u) satisfies the following assumption, in the sequel called the second-order sufficient condition: It holds
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Remark 2.4.2 If we only need the directional differentiable property of the control-to-state
mapping u 7→ y to establish the first-order necessary optimality conditions, a more regular
property of this mapping is required to prove the second-order sufficient conditions - that isFréchet differentiable up to order 2 Although we did not state explicitly, we have proved thisproperty in the proof above
Remark 2.4.3 In this chapter, a distributed optimal control problem governed by 3D
Navier-Stokes-Voigt equations in the case of absence of state constraints was investigated In the case
of the presence of pointwise control-state constraints, a similar optimal control problem wasstudied recently by N H Son and T M Nguyet (2019)
Trang 13of optimal solutions, and then establish the first-order necessary optimality condition and thesecond-order sufficient optimality conditions.
The content of this chapter is based on article [CT2] in the List of Publications
3.1 Setting of the problem
Let Ω be a bounded domain in R3 with locally Lipschitz boundary Γ and T > 0 be a fixed
final time We consider the minimization of the following objective functional:
T ∗ (u) := inf {t ∈ [0, T ] : ky(t) − y e k ≤ δ}
Here, y e is the desired state, δ, γ are given constants and y is the state associated to control u, i.e y is the unique weak solution of the following Navier-Stokes-Voigt equations on the interval