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Let $\Delta$ be the Dirichlet Laplacian on the interval $(0,\pi)$. The null controllability properties of the equation $$u_{tt}+\Delta^2 u+\rho (\Delta)^\alpha u_t=F(x,t)$$ are studied. Let $T>0$, and assume initial conditions $(u^0,u^1)\in…
We consider the linear degenerate wave equation, on the interval $(0, 1)$ $$ w_{tt} - (x^\alpha w_x)_x = p(t) \mu (x) w, $$ with bilinear control $p$ and Neumann boundary conditions. We study the controllability of this nonlinear control…
We investigate the problem of data-driven, on-the-fly control of systems with unknown nonlinear dynamics where data from only a single finite-horizon trajectory and possibly side information on the dynamics are available. Such side…
In the paper, problems of controllability, approximate controllability, reachability and approximate reachability are studied for the control system $w_t=w_{xx}$, $w(0,\cdot)=u$, $x>0$, $t\in(0,T)$, where $u\in L^\infty(0,T)$ is a control.…
We study the internal controllability of the semilinear wave equation $$v_{tt}(x,t)-\Delta v(x,t) + f(x,v(x,t))= \Un_{\omega} u(x,t)$$ for some nonlinearities $f$ which can produce several non-trivial steady states. One of the usual…
In this paper, we are interested in the relation between the solutions of the control system $\dot x=f(x,u)$ and the solutions of its (potentially unknown) perturbation $\dot x=f(x,u)+w(x,t).$ Under the assumption that the linear part of…
In the paper, the problems of controllability and approximate controllability are studied for the control system $w_t=\Delta w$, $w_{x_1}(0,x_2,t)=u(t)\delta(x_2)$, $x_1>0$, $x_2\in\mathbb R$, $t\in(0,T)$, where $u\in L^\infty(0,T)$ is a…
Let $\Delta$ be the Dirichlet Laplacian on the interval $(0,\pi)$, and let $T>0$. We prove a well-posedness results for the structurally damped beam equation $$u_{tt}+\Delta^2 u-\rho \Delta u_t=0, x\in (0,\pi),t>0$$ with various boundary…
This paper is concerned with a shape optimization problem governed by a non-smooth PDE, i.e., the nonlinearity in the state equation is not necessarily differentiable. We follow the functional variational approach of [40] where the set of…
We consider the semilinear damped wave equation $\partial_{tt}^2 u(x,t)+\gamma(x)\partial_t u(x,t)=\Delta u(x,t)-\alpha u(x,t)-f(x,u(x,t))$. In this article, we obtain the first results concerning the stabilization of this semilinear…
We make a complete analysis of the controllability properties from the exterior of the (possible) strong damping wave equation with the fractional Laplace operator subject to the nonhomogeneous Dirichlet type exterior condition. In the…
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),…
This is a continuation, and conclusion, of our study of bounded solutions $u$ of the semilinear parabolic equation $u_t=u_{xx}+f(u)$ on the real line whose initial data $u_0=u(\cdot,0)$ have finite limits $\theta^\pm$ as $x\to\pm\infty$. We…
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…
We consider the decidability of state-to-state reachability in linear time-invariant control systems over discrete time. We analyse this problem with respect to the allowable control sets, which in general are assumed to be defined by…
We survey results of recent activity towards studying controllability and accessibility issues for equations of dynamics of incompressible fluids controlled by low-dimensional or, degenerate, forcing. New results concerning controllability…
We consider a control system describing the interaction of water waves with a partially immersed rigid body constraint to move only in the vertical direction. The fluid is modeled by the shallow water equations. The control signal is a…
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…
In the present paper, the reducibility is derived for the wave equations with finitely smooth and time-quasi-periodic potential subjects to periodic boundary conditions. More exactly, the linear wave equation $u_{tt}-u_{xx}+Mu+\varepsilon…
This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem subject to the $H^1$-critical defocusing semilinear wave equation on a smooth and bounded domain in three spatial dimensions. Due to the criticality of the nonlinearity in the wave…