A new approximation of the Schur complement in preconditioners for PDE-constrained optimization

Saddle point systems arise widely in optimization problems with constraints. The utility of Schur complement approximation is now broadly appreciated in the context of solving such saddle point systems by iteration. In this short manuscript, we present a new Schur complement approximation for PDE-co...

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Asıl Yazarlar: Pearson, J, Wathen, A
Materyal Türü: Journal article
Dil:English
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: 2012
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Wathen, A
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description Saddle point systems arise widely in optimization problems with constraints. The utility of Schur complement approximation is now broadly appreciated in the context of solving such saddle point systems by iteration. In this short manuscript, we present a new Schur complement approximation for PDE-constrained optimization, an important class of these problems. Block diagonal and block triangular preconditioners have previously been designed to be used to solve such problems along with MINRES and non-standard Conjugate Gradients, respectively; with appropriate approximation blocks, these can be optimal in the sense that the time required for solution scales linearly with the problem size, however small the mesh size we use. In this paper, we extend this work to designing such preconditioners for which this optimality property holds independently of both the mesh size and the Tikhonov regularization parameter β that is used. This also leads to an effective symmetric indefinite preconditioner that exhibits mesh and β independence. We motivate the choice of these preconditioners based on observations about approximating the Schur complement obtained from the matrix system, derive eigenvalue bounds that verify the effectiveness of the approximation and present numerical results that show that these new preconditioners work well in practice. © 2011 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
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spelling oxford-uuid:faa7b392-a9e0-4cb5-aad8-5a50eef7d6e12022-03-27T13:07:42ZA new approximation of the Schur complement in preconditioners for PDE-constrained optimizationJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:faa7b392-a9e0-4cb5-aad8-5a50eef7d6e1EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2012Pearson, JWathen, ASaddle point systems arise widely in optimization problems with constraints. The utility of Schur complement approximation is now broadly appreciated in the context of solving such saddle point systems by iteration. In this short manuscript, we present a new Schur complement approximation for PDE-constrained optimization, an important class of these problems. Block diagonal and block triangular preconditioners have previously been designed to be used to solve such problems along with MINRES and non-standard Conjugate Gradients, respectively; with appropriate approximation blocks, these can be optimal in the sense that the time required for solution scales linearly with the problem size, however small the mesh size we use. In this paper, we extend this work to designing such preconditioners for which this optimality property holds independently of both the mesh size and the Tikhonov regularization parameter β that is used. This also leads to an effective symmetric indefinite preconditioner that exhibits mesh and β independence. We motivate the choice of these preconditioners based on observations about approximating the Schur complement obtained from the matrix system, derive eigenvalue bounds that verify the effectiveness of the approximation and present numerical results that show that these new preconditioners work well in practice. © 2011 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
spellingShingle Pearson, J
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A new approximation of the Schur complement in preconditioners for PDE-constrained optimization
title A new approximation of the Schur complement in preconditioners for PDE-constrained optimization
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title_short A new approximation of the Schur complement in preconditioners for PDE-constrained optimization
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