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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 discuss our recent works on the null-controllability, the exact controllability, and the stabilization of linear hyperbolic systems in one dimensional space using boundary controls on one side for the optimal time. Under…
This paper deals with the approximate controllability for the semilinear heat equation in one space dimension. Our aim is to provide an estimate of the cost of the control.
We study the relation between propagation of smallness in the plane and control for heat equations. The former has been proved by Zhu who showed how the value of solutions in some small set propagates to a larger domain. By reviewing his…
One proves that the moving interface of a two-phase Stefan problem on $\ooo\subset\rr^d$, $d=1,2,3,$ is controllable at the end time $T$ by a Neumann boundary controller $u$. The phase-transition region is a mushy region $\{\sigma^u_t;\…
In this article we consider moment problems equivalent to null controllability of some linear parabolic partial differential equations in space dimension higher than one. For these moment problems, we prove existence of an associated…
In this paper we prove a uniform controllability result for a fourth order parabolic partial differential equation which includes a transport term, when the coefficients of higher order terms vanish. We prove the null controllability of the…
In this paper, we study the small-time global null controllability of the generalized Burgers' equations $y_t + \gamma |y|^{\gamma-1}y_x-y_{xx}=u(t)$ on the segment $[0,1]$. The scalar control $u(t)$ is uniform in space and plays a role…
This article is dedicated to insensitization issues of a quadratic functional involving the solution of the linear heat equation with respect to domains variations. This work can be seen as a continuation of [P. Lissy, Y. Privat, and Y.…
We consider the three-dimensional ideal MHD system on a domain $\Omega' \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ with a part $\Gamma$ of the boundary~$\partial \Omega$, where we prescribe both $u\cdot n$ and $b\cdot n$, while $u\cdot n = b\cdot n =0$ on…
Using a compactness-uniqueness approach, we show that the Fattorini criterion implies the exact controllability of general compactly perturbed controlled linear systems. We then apply this perturbation result to obtain new controllability…
The paper deals with the controllability of a degenerate beam equation. In particular, we assume that the left end of the beam is fixed, while a suitable control $f$ acts on the right end of it. As a first step we prove the existence of a…
We consider the heat equation with dynamic bounary conditions involving gradient terms in a bounded domain. In this paper we study the cost of approximate controllability for this equation. Combining new developed Carleman estimates and…
The paper deals with exact null-controllability problem for a linear control system consisting of two serially connected abstract control systems. Controllability conditions are obtained. Applications to the exact null-controllability for…
We study inhomogeneous heat equation with inverse square potential, namely, \[\partial_tu + \mathcal{L}_a u= \pm |\cdot|^{-b} |u|^{\alpha}u,\] where $\mathcal{L}_a=-\Delta + a |x|^{-2}.$ We establish some fixed-time decay estimate for…
This paper deals with the hierarchical control of the anisotropic heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions and drift terms. We use the Stackelberg-Nash strategy with one leader and two followers. To each fixed leader, we find a Nash…
This paper is devoted to study the controllability of a one-dimensional fluid-particle interaction model where the fluid follows the viscous Burgers equation and the point mass obeys Newton's second law. We prove the null controllability…
The main purpose of this article is to prove a logarithmic convexity estimate for the solution of a linear heat equation subject to dynamic boundary conditions in a bounded convex domain. As an application, we prove the impulsive null…
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…