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This article is devoted to the study of null controllability for evolution equations that incorporate both memory and delay effects. The problem is particularly challenging due to the presence of memory integrals and delayed states, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Dev Prakash Jha , Raju K. George

The goal of this paper is to analyze control properties of the parabolic equation with variable coefficients in the principal part and with a singular inverse-square potential:\,$\partial_tu(x,t)-{\rm div}(p(x)\nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Xue Qin , Shumin Li

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-25 Romain Joly , Camille Laurent

We prove boundary controllability results for wave equations (with lower-order terms) on Lorentzian manifolds with time-dependent geometry satisfying suitable curvature bounds. The main ingredient is a novel global Carleman estimate on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Vaibhav Kumar Jena , Arick Shao

We study the null controllability for a degenerate/singular wave equation with drift in non divergence form. In particular, considering a control localized on the non degenerate boundary point, we provide some conditions for the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Genni Fragnelli , Dimitri Mugnai , Amine Sbai

We consider the 2D inviscid incompressible irrotational infinite depth water wave problem neglecting surface tension. Given wave packet initial data, we show that the modulation of the solution is a profile traveling at group velocity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Nathan Totz , Sijue Wu

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

We study the boundary control problems for the wave, heat, and Schr\"odinger equations on a finite graph. We suppose that the graph is a tree (i.e., it does not contain cycles), and on each edge an equation is defined. The control is acting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 S. A. Avdonin , V. S. Mikhaylov

In this paper, we investigate the two-point boundary value problems for linear wave equation defined on a circle and prove that the equation possesses the exact controllability. We also investigate the two-point boundary value problems for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-04-20 De-Xing Kong , Qing-You Sun

In this paper, we continue the study of some controllability issues for the forward stochastic parabolic equation with dynamic boundary conditions. The main novelty in the present paper consists of considering only one control without extra…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Said Boulite , Abdellatif Elgrou , Lahcen Maniar , Omar Oukdach

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

The primary focus of this paper is to establish the internal null controllability for the one-dimensional heat equation featuring dynamic boundary conditions. This achievement is realized by introducing a new Carleman estimate and an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-03 El Mustapha Ait Ben Hassi , Mariem Jakhoukh , Lahcen Maniar , Walid Zouhair

S. Hansen and E. Zuazua [SIAM J. Cont. Optim., 1995] studied the problem of exact controllability of two strings connected by a point mass with constant physical coefficients. In this paper we study the same problem with variable physical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-25 Jamel Ben Amara , Beldi Emna

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

A widely used stochastic wave equation is the classical wave equation perturbed by a term of It\^o's integral. We show that this equation is not exactly controllable even if the controls are effective everywhere in both the drift and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Qi Lü , Xu Zhang

We consider the Kawahara equation, a fifth order Korteweg-de Vries type equation, posed on a bounded interval. The first result of the article is related to the well-posedness in weighted Sobolev spaces, which one was shown using a general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Roberto de A. Capistrano Filho , Milena de S. Gomes

We establish the approximate controllability in $L^2$ for the nonlinear Benjamin-Ono equation on torus via two-dimensional control input. Our proof is based on adaptations of geometric control approach introduced by Agrachev and Sarychev.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Jia-Cheng Zhao

We are motivated by the problem of control for a non-homogeneous elastic string with memory. We reduce the problem of controllability to a non-standard moment problem. The solution of the latter problem is based on an auxiliary Riesz basis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-28 Sergei A. Avdonin , Boris P. Belinskiy

In this paper, we study a time optimal internal control problem governed by the heat equation in $\Omega\times [0,\infty)$. In the problem, the target set $S$ is nonempty in $L^2(\Omega)$, the control set $U$ is closed, bounded and nonempty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gengsheng Wang

In this paper we investigate null-controllable initial states of the half heat equation controlled from a sub-arc $\omega$ of the unit circle. We also study the projection on positive frequencies of the half-heat equation. For this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Andreas Hartman , Armand Koenig