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We consider the physical setup of a three-dimensional fluid-structure interaction problem. A viscous compressible gas or liquid interacts with a nonlinear, visco-elastic, three-dimensional bulk solid. The latter is described by a hyperbolic…
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In this paper we study boundary controllability of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation posed on a finite domain $(0,L)$ with the Neumann boundary conditions: u_t+u_x+uu_x+u_{xxx}=0 in (0,L)x(0,T), u_{xx}(0,t)=0, u_x(L,t)=h(t),…
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