A Multiscale Finite Element Method for an Elliptic Distributed Optimal Control Problem with Rough Coefficients and Control Constraints

Abstract: We construct and analyze a multiscale finite element method for an elliptic distributed optimal control problem with pointwise control constraints, where the state equation has rough coefficients. We show that the performance of the multiscale finite element method is similar to the performance of standard finite element methods for smooth problems and present corroborating numerical results.