Abstract
We study a minimisation problem in Lp and L∞ for certain cost functionals, where the class of admissible mappings is constrained by the Navier–Stokes equations. Problems of this type are motivated by variational data assimilation for atmospheric flows arising in weather forecasting. Herein we establish the existence of PDE-constrained minimisers for all p, and also that Lp minimisers converge to L∞ minimisers as p → ∞. We further show that Lp minimisers solve an Euler–Lagrange system. Finally, all special L∞ minimisers constructed via approximation by Lp minimisers are shown to solve a divergence PDE system involving measure coefficients, which is a divergence-form counterpart of the corresponding non-divergence Aronsson–Euler system.
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Recommended by Professor Beatrice Pelloni
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EC has been financially supported through the UK EPSRC scholarship GS19-055. BM has been partially financially supported through the Croatian Science Foundation project IP-2019-04-1140.