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We prove a reducibility result for a class of quasi-periodically forced linear wave equations on the $d$-dimensional torus $\mathbb{T}^d$ of the form $$ \partial_{tt} v - \Delta v + \varepsilon {\cal P}(\omega t)[v] = 0 $$ where the…
We study the global approximate controllability (GAC) of a Klein-Gordon wave equation, posed on the torus $\mathbb{T}^d$ of arbitrary dimension $d\in \mathbb{N}^*$, with bilinear control potentials supported on the first $(2d+1)$-Fourier…
We consider the problem of boundary control for a vibrating string with $N$ interior point masses. We assume the control is at the left end, and the string is fixed at the right end. Singularities in waves are "smoothed" out to one order as…
It is first shown that a smooth controllable system on a compact manifold is finite time controllable. The technique of proof is close to the one of Sussmann's orbit theorem, and no rank condition is required. This technique is also used to…
This paper concerns the null controllability for a class of stochastic degenerate parabolic equations. We first establish a global Carleman estimate for a linear forward stochastic degenerate equation with multiplicative noise. Using this…
We consider the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equation in a rectangle with the usual no-slip boundary condition prescribed on the upper and lower boundaries. We prove that for any positive time, for any finite energy initial data, there…
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Solutions of a system of wave equations are constructed for both homogeneous and inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions at every regularity level. We prove that boundary observability, and thus boundary exact controllability, at some…
In this paper we establish an observability inequality for the heat equation with bounded potentials on the whole space. Roughly speaking, such a kind of inequality says that the total energy of solutions can be controlled by the energy…
This article is devoted to analyze control properties for the heat equation with singular potential $-\mu/|x|^2$ arising at the boundary of a smooth domain $\Omega\subset \rr^N$, $N\geq 1$. This problem was firstly studied by Vancostenoble…
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…
The moment method is used to prove the exact controllability of a wide class of bidimensional linear dispersive PDE's posed on the two-dimensional torus $\mathbb{T}^{2}.$ The control function is considered to be acting on a small vertical…
In this paper, motivated by the study of optimal control problems for infinite dimensional systems with endpoint state constraints, we introduce the notion of finite codimensional (exact/approximate) controllability. Some equivalent…
In this article, we study the control aspects of the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations with Maxwell's law linearized around a constant steady state with zero velocity. We consider the linearized system with Dirichlet…
We consider the non linear wave equation (NLW) on the d-dimensional torus with a smooth nonlinearity of order at least two at the origin. We prove that, for almost any mass, small and smooth solutions of high Sobolev indices are stable up…
The problem of local null controllability for the control-affine nonlinear systems $\dot x(t)=f(x(t))+Bu(t)+w(t),$ $t\in[0,T]$ is considered in this paper. The principal requirements on the system are that the LTI pair $\left((\partial…
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