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Preconditioners for robust optimal control problems under uncertainty

Nobile, Fabio  
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Vanzan, Tommaso  
2023
Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications

The discretization of robust quadratic optimal control problems under uncertainty using the finite element method and the stochastic collocation method leads to large saddle-point systems, which are fully coupled across the random realizations. Despite its relevance for numerous engineering problems, the solution of such systems is notoriously challenging. In this manuscript, we study efficient preconditioners for all-at-once approaches using both an algebraic and an operator preconditioning framework. We show in particular that for values of the regularization parameter not too small, the saddle-point system can be efficiently solved by preconditioning in parallel all the state and adjoint equations. For small values of the regularization parameter, robustness can be recovered by the additional solution of a small linear system, which however couples all realizations. A mean approximation and a Chebyshev semi-iterative method are proposed to solve this reduced system. We consider a random elliptic partial differential equation whose diffusion coefficient κ(x, ω) is modeled as an almost surely continuous and positive random field, though not necessarily uniformly bounded and coercive. We further provide estimates of the dependence of the spectrum of the preconditioned system matrix on the statistical properties of the random field and on the discretization of the probability space. Such estimates involve either the first or second moment of the random variables 1∕ min x∈D κ(x, ω) and max x∈D κ(x, ω), where D is the spatial domain. The theoretical results are confirmed by numerical experiments, and implementation details are further addressed.

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research article
DOI
10.1002/nla.2472
Author(s)
Nobile, Fabio  
Vanzan, Tommaso  
Date Issued

2023

Published in
Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications
Volume

30

Issue

2

Article Number

e2472

Subjects

Optimal control problems under uncertainty

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parameter robust preconditioners

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random PDE

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lognormal fields

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
CSQI  
FunderGrant Number

H2020

800898

Swiss federal funding

172678

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October 27, 2022
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