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We develop a delay-adaptive controller for a class of first-order hyperbolic partial integro-differential equations (PIDEs) with an unknown input delay. By employing a transport PDE to represent delayed actuator states, the system is…
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This paper studies the boundary output feedback stabilization of general 1-D reaction-diffusion PDEs in the presence of a state delay in the reaction term. The control input applies through a Robin boundary condition while the system output…
We study multi-phase Stefan problem with increasing Riemann initial data and with generally negative latent specific heats for the phase transitions. We propose the variational formulation of self-similar solutions, which allows to find…
We consider a strongly nonlinear PDE system describing solid-solid phase transitions in shape memory alloys. The system accounts for the evolution of an order parameter (related to different symmetries of the crystal lattice in the phase…
This paper addresses the boundary output feedback stabilization of general 1-D reaction-diffusion PDEs with delayed boundary measurement. The output takes the form of a either Dirichlet or Neumann trace. The output delay can be arbitrarily…
In this paper, we study the stabilization problem for a food extrusion process in the isothermal case. The model expresses the mass conservation in the extruder chamber and consists of a hyperbolic Partial Differential Equation (PDE) and a…
We consider output-feedback stabilization problems for a class of two-component linear parabolic systems with boundary actuation and measurement. The state-feedback control laws are obtained using backstepping method and require measurement…
In this article, we detail the design of an output feedback stabilizing control law for an underactuated network of N subsystems of n + m heterodirectional linear first-order hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations interconnected through…
One dimensional Stefan problems for a semi-infinite material with temperature dependent thermal coefficients are considered. Existence and uniqueness of solution are obtained imposing a Dirichlet or a Robin type condition at fixed face…
We present a novel numerical method to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for two-phase flows with phase change, using a one-fluid approach. Separate phases are tracked using a geometric Volume-Of-Fluid (VOF) method with…
A thermodynamically consistent two-phase Stefan problem with temperature-dependent surface tension and with or without kinetic undercooling is studied. It is shown that these problems generate local semiflows in well-defined state…
We develop backstepping state feedback control to stabilize a moving shockwave in a freeway segment under bilateral boundary actuations of traffic flow. A moving shockwave, consisting of light traffic upstream of the shockwave and heavy…
Solving the Stefan problem, also referred as the heat conduction problem with phase change, is a necessary step to solve phase change problems with convection. In this article, we are interested in using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM)…
The goal of this work is to compute a boundary control of reaction-diffusion partial differential equation. The boundary control is subject to a constant delay, whereas the equation may be unstable without any control. For this system…
In this paper, we develop a novel and simple adaptive control scheme for a one-dimensional unstable heat equation with unknown control coefficient. A new state observer is designed to estimate the system state, while a new update law is…
We analyze the state constrained inverse Stefan type parabolic free boundary problem as an optimal control problem in the Sobolev-Besov spaces framework. Boundary heat flux, density of heat sources, and free boundary are components of the…
In this paper, we are concerned with the state feedback stabilization of ODE-PDE cascade systems governed by a linear ordinary differential equation and the 1-d reaction-diffusion equation posed on a bounded interval. In contrast to the…
Stefan problems relevant to burning oil-water systems are formulated. Two moving boundary sub-problems are defined: burning liquid surface and formation of a distillation ("hot zone") layer beneath it. The basic model considers a heat…