Discontinuous Galerkin approximations for an optimal control problem of three-dimensional Navier-Stokes-Voigt equations

Abstract

We analyze a fully discrete scheme based on the discontinuous (in time) Galerkin approach, which is combined with conforming finite element subspaces in space, for the distributed optimal control problem of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes-Voigt equations with a quadratic objective functional and box control constraints. The space-time error estimates of order $O(\sqrt{\tau}+h)$, where $\tau$ and $h$ are respectively the time and space discretization parameters, are proved for the difference between the locally optimal controls and their discrete approximations.