Eighth Mississippi State - UAB Conference on Differential Equations and
Computational Simulations.
Electron. J. Diff. Eqns., Conference 19 (2010), pp. 15-30.

Title: Variational data assimilation for discrete Burgers equation

Authors: Amit Apte (TIFR,Chikkabommasandra, Bangalore, India)
         Didier Auroux (Univ. de Nice Sophia, Antipolis, Nice, France)
	 Mythily Ramaswamy (TIFR,Chikkabommasandra, Bangalore, India)
 
Abstract: 
 We present an optimal control formulation of the data assimilation
 problem for the Burgers' equation, with the initial condition as the
 control. First the convergence of the implicit Lax-Friedrichs
 numerical discretization scheme is presented. Then we study the
 dependence of the convergence of the associated minimization problem
 on different terms in the cost function, specifically, the weight for
 the regularization and the number of observations, as well as the
 a priori approximation of the initial condition. We present
 numerical evidence for multiple minima of the cost function without
 regularization, while only a single minimum is seen for the
 regularized problem.

Published September 25, 2010.
Math Subject Classifications: 
Key Words: Variational data assimilation; Burgers equation; 
           Lax-Friedrichs scheme.