Abstract:
A problem of optimal boundary control of thermal sources for a stationary model of natural thermal convection of a high-viscosity inhomogeneous incompressible fluid in the Boussinesq approximation is investigated. Some conditions for the solvability of the problem are given; necessary and sufficient optimality conditions are specified. Optimality conditions and the corresponding conjugate problems defining the gradient of the quality functional are written for a number of particular cases of the functional. Procedures for the numerical finding of an optimal control based on gradient methods are described. The results of numerical experiments are given.
Citation:
A. I. Korotkii, D. A. Kovtunov, “Optimal boundary control of a system describing thermal convection”, Trudy Inst. Mat. i Mekh. UrO RAN, 16, no. 1, 2010, 76–101; Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. (Suppl.), 272, suppl. 1 (2011), S74–S100