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In this paper we prove the null controllability of a one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equation with a weighted Robin boundary condition at the left endpoint, where the potential has a singularity. We use some results from the singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-15 L. Galo-Mendoza , M. López-García

This paper deals with controllability properties of a cubic Ginzburg-Landau equation with dynamic boundary conditions. More precisely, we prove a local null controllability result by using a single control supported in a small subset of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Nicolás Carreño , Alberto Mercado , Roberto Morales

We establish the null controllability for linear stochastic fourth order parabolic equations. Utilizing the duality argument, the null controllability is reduced to the observability for backward fourth order stochastic parabolic equations,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Qi Lü , Yu Wang

This paper is devoted to the controllability of linear systems of two coupled parabolic equations when the coupling involves a space dependent first order term. This system is set on an bounded interval, and the first equation is controlled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Michel Duprez

In this paper, we consider the wave equation with both a viscous Kelvin-Voigt and frictional damping as a model of viscoelasticity in which we incorporate an internal control with a moving support. We prove the null controllability when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-15 Felipe W. Chaves-Silva , Lionel Rosier , Enrique Zuazua

In this paper, we consider the following degenerate/singular parabolic equation $$ u_t -(x^\alpha u_{x})_x - \frac{\mu}{x^{2-\alpha}} u =0, \qquad x\in (0,1), \ t \in (0,T), $$ where $0\leq \alpha <1$ and $\mu\leq (1-\alpha)^2/4$ are two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Umberto Biccari , Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Judith Vancostenoble

In this paper we will generalize the Kalman rank condition for the null controllability to $n$-coupled linear degenerate parabolic systems with constant coefficients, diagonalizable diffusion matrix, and $m$-controls. For that we prove a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-10 E. M. Ait Benhassi , M. Fadili , L. Maniar

In this paper, we investigate the null controllability of nonlinear wave systems. Initially, we employ a combination of the Galerkin method and a fixed point theorem to establish the null controllability for semi-linear wave equations with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Yan Cui , Peng Lu , Yi Zhou

Exact controllability is proven on a graph with cycle. The controls can be a mix of controls applied at the boundary and interior vertices. The method of proof first uses a dynamical argument to prove shape controllability and velocity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Sergei Avdonin , Julian Edward , Yuanyuan Zhao

This paper addresses the controllability of a class of quasi-linear parabolic equations governed by multiplicative controls with mobile support. To prove the existence of such a control forcing the solution to rest at time $T>0$, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Lingyang Liu

We study boundary controllability of one-dimensional coupled hyperbolic-parabolic cascades, focusing on the fine structure of reachable sets. The main model is a wave-heat cascade in which a boundary control acts on the wave equation and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Hugo Lhachemi , Christophe Prieur , Emmanuel Trélat

This paper presents the concepts of exact, null, and approximate controllability in the Stackelberg-Nash sense for abstract forward and backward stochastic evolution equations, involving two types of controls: leaders and followers. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Abdellatif Elgrou , Omar Oukdach

In this paper, we are concerned with the controllability of a chemotaxis system of parabolic-elliptic type. By linearizing the nonlinear system into two separated linear equations to bypass the obstacle caused by the nonlinear drift term,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-23 Bao-Zhu Guo , Liang Zhang

This paper is devoted to a study of the controllability of a free-boundary problem for a class of one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equations with distributed controls, locally supported in space. We prove that for any $T>0$, if the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Lingyang Liu

We prove observability and null-controllability for quadratic parabolic differential equations. The sensor set is allowed to be sparse and have finite volume if the generator has trivial singular space $S$. In the case of generators with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Alexander Dicke , Albrecht Seelmann , Ivan Veselic

In this work we analyse the small-time reachability properties of a nonlinear parabolic equation, by means of a bilinear control, posed on a torus of arbitrary dimension $d$. Under a saturation hypothesis on the control operators, we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Alessandro Duca , Eugenio Pozzoli , Cristina Urbani

Robust adaptive control of scalar plants in the presence of unmodeled dynamics is established in this paper. It is shown that implementation of a projection algorithm with standard adaptive control of a scalar plant ensures global…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Heather S. Hussain , Megumi M. Matsutani , Anuradha M. Annaswamy , Eugene Lavretsky

We are concerned about the controllability of a general linear hyperbolic system of the form $\partial_t w (t, x) = \Sigma(x) \partial_x w (t, x) + \gamma C(x) w(t, x) $ ($\gamma \in \mR$) in one space dimension using boundary controls on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Jean-Michel Coron , Hoai-Minh Nguyen

We study the internal controllability of a wave equation with memory in the principal part, defined on the one-dimensional torus $\mathbb{T}=\mathbb{R}/2\pi\mathbb{Z}$. We assume that the control is acting on an open subset…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Umberto Biccari , Sorin Micu

Controllability properties for discrete-time, Markovian quantum dynamics are investigated. We find that, while in general the controlled system is not finite-time controllable, feedback control allows for arbitrary asymptotic state-to-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-25 Francesca Albertini , Francesco Ticozzi