2022, Hintermüller, Michael, Keil, Tobias

This paper is concerned with the distributed optimal control of a time-discrete Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system with variable densities. It focuses on the double-obstacle potential which yields an optimal control problem for a variational inequality of fourth order and the Navier-Stokes equation. The existence of solutions to the primal system and of optimal controls is established. The Lipschitz continuity of the constraint mapping is derived and used to characterize the directional derivative of the constraint mapping via a system of variational inequalities and partial differential equations. Finally, strong stationarity conditions are presented following an approach from Mignot and Puel.

2016, Hintermüller, Michael, Hinze, Michael, Kahle, Christian, Tobias, Keil

This paper is concerned with the development and implementation of an adaptive solution algorithm for the optimal control of a time-discrete Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system with variable densities. The free energy density associated to the Cahn-Hilliard system incorporates the double-obstacle potential which yields an optimal control problem for a family of coupled systems in each time instant of a variational inequality of fourth order and the Navier-Stokes equation. A dual-weighted residual approach for goal-oriented adaptive finite elements is presented which is based on the concept of C-stationarity. The overall error representation depends on primal residuals weighted by approximate dual quantities and vice versa as well as various complementarity mismatch errors. Details on the numerical realization of the adaptive concept and a report on numerical tests are given.