English

Boundary controllability of phase-transition region of a two-phase Stefan problem

Analysis of PDEs 2020-08-27 v1 Optimization and Control

Abstract

One proves that the moving interface of a two-phase Stefan problem on \ooo\rrd\ooo\subset\rr^d, d=1,2,3,d=1,2,3, is controllable at the end time TT by a Neumann boundary controller uu. The phase-transition region is a mushy region {σtu; 0tT}\{\sigma^u_t;\ 0\le t\le T\} of a modified Stefan problem and the main result amounts to saying that, for each Lebesque measurable set \ooo\ooo^* with positive measure, there is uL2((0,T)×\pp\ooo)u\in L^2((0,T)\times\pp\ooo) such that \oooσTu.\ooo^*\subset\sigma^u_T. To this aim, one uses an optimal control approach combined with Carleman's inequality and the Kakutani fixed point theorem.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2008.11382,
  title  = {Boundary controllability of phase-transition region of a two-phase Stefan problem},
  author = {Viorel Barbu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.11382},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

19 pages