Abstract:A finite element discretization of an optimal insulation problem with convective heat transfer is considered. The model is formulated as a non-smooth, two-variable convex minimization problem. It accounts for the temperature distribution in a thermally conducting body $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^d$, with $d\in \{2,3\}$, and the distribution of a given amount of insulation material on an insulated boundary part $\Gamma_I\subseteq \partial\Omega$.
The surface integral over the insulated boundary $\Gamma_I$ is approximated by a mass-lumping quadrature that preserves the structure of the continuous setting and, in particular, yields discrete optimality conditions mirroring their continuous counterparts. Well-posedness, stability, and weak convergence of discrete solutions to the continuous ones are established.
Furthermore, a block coordinate descent algorithm for the computation of the discrete solutions is formulated and its linear convergence is derived. Under suitable regularity assumptions, uniform $L^\infty(\Gamma_I)$-bounds and $\textit{a priori}$ error estimates for both the temperature distribution and the distribution of a given amount of insulation material are obtained. Numerical experiments are carried out that confirm the predicted error decay rates and demonstrate the method in a qualitative three-dimensional test on a realistic spacecraft crew module capsule geometry with idealized reentry-heating Robin data.
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