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The aim of this paper is to study the null controllability of a class of quasilinear parabolic equations. In a first step we prove that the associated linear parabolic equations with non-constant diffusion coefficients are approximately…

We prove that the thickness property is a necessary and sufficient geometric condition that ensures the (rapid) stabilization or the approximate null-controllability with uniform cost of a large class of evolution equations posed on the…

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…

This work studies the null controllability of a system of coupled parabolic PDEs. In particular, our work specializes to an important subclass of these control problems which are coupled by first and zero-order couplings and are,…

We study the behavior for $t$ small and positive of $C^{2,1}$ nonnegative solutions $u(x,t)$ and $v(x,t)$ of the system \[0\leq u_t-\Delta u\leq v^\lambda\] \[0\leq v_t-\Delta v\leq u^\sigma\] in $\Omega\times (0,1)$, where $\lambda$ and…

This paper studies the approximate and null controllability for impulse controlled systems of heat equations coupled by a pair (A,B) of constant matrices. We present a necessary and sufficient condition for the approximate controllability,…

A quantitative regularity theory is developed for weak solutions to the parabolic system $$ \partial_t u-\mathrm{div}\,{\boldsymbol{\mathsf A}}(x,t,Du)=0 \quad\text{in }E_T\subset \mathbb{R}^N\times\mathbb{R}, $$ which features the…

In this paper we examine well-posedness for a class of fourth-order nonlinear parabolic equation $\partial_t u + (-\Delta)^2 u = \nabla \cdot F(\nabla u)$, where $F$ satisfies a cubic growth conditions. We establish existence and uniqueness…

We consider the integral definition of the fractional Laplacian and analyze a linear-quadratic optimal control problem for the so-called fractional heat equation; control constraints are also considered. We derive existence and uniqueness…

We derive in a direct and rather straightforward way the null controllability of a 2-D heat equation with boundary control. We use the so-called flatness approach, which consists in parameterizing the solution and the control by the…

In this article, we study the null-controllability and observability properties of a bi-dimensio\-nal fluid-structure interaction system, governed by the heat equation coupled with the damped beam equation. To do so, we prove a global…

We prove a Carleman estimate for a one-dimensional parabolic equation which degenerates at one extremity of the domain and has a bounded, time dependent coefficient multiplying the diffusion term. Then we use the estimate to show the null…

This paper presents a complete analysis of the observability property of heat equations with time-dependent real analytic memory kernels. More precisely, we characterize the geometry of the space-time measurable observation sets ensuring…

Let $u_t=\nabla^2 u-q(x)u:=Lu$ in $D\times [0,\infty)$, where $D\subset R^3$ is a bounded domain with a smooth connected boundary $S$, and $q(x)\in L^2(S)$ is a real-valued function with compact support in $D$. Assume that $u(x,0)=0$, $u=0$…

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$, and $Q=\Omega \times(0,T).$ We study problems of the model type \[ \left\{ \begin{array} [c]{l}% {u_{t}}-{\Delta_{p}}u=\mu\qquad\text{in }Q,\\ {u}=0\qquad\text{on…

This article is concerned in the first place with the short-time observability constant of the heat equation from a subdomain $\omega$ of a bounded domain $M$. The constant is of the form $e^{\frac{K}{T}}$, where $K$ depends only on the…

We prove logarithmic stability in the parabolic inverse problem of determining the space-varying factor in the source, by a single partial boundary measurement of the solution to the heat equation in an infinite closed waveguide, with…

In this paper, we derive a boundary and an internal observability inequality for stochastic hyperbolic equations with nonsmooth lower order terms. The required inequalities are obtained by global Carleman estimate for stochastic hyperbolic…

In this note we prove the strong unique continuation property at the origin for the solutions of the parabolic differential inequality \[ |\Delta u - u_t| \leq \frac{M}{|x|^2} |u|, \] with the critical inverse square potential. Our main…

This work presents a comparative study to numerically compute impulse approximate controls for parabolic equations with various boundary conditions. Theoretical controllability results have been recently investigated using a logarithmic…