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In this paper, we study the global approximate multiplicative controllability for nonlinear degenerate parabolic Cauchy-Neumann problems. First, we will obtain embedding results for weighted Sobolev spaces, that have proved decisive in…
The paper is devoted to studying controllability properties for 3D Navier-Stokes equations in a bounded domain. We establish a sufficient condition under which the problem in question is exactly controllable in any finite-dimensional…
In this work we analyse the small-time reachability properties of a nonlinear parabolic equation, by means of a bilinear control, posed on a torus of arbitrary dimension $d$. Under a saturation hypothesis on the control operators, we show…
It is by now well known that the use of Carleman estimates allows to establish the control-lability to trajectories of nonlinear parabolic equations. However, by this approach, it is not clear how to decide whether a given function is…
In this work, we investigate the small-time global controllability properties of a class of fourth-order nonlinear parabolic equations driven by a bilinear control posed on the one-dimensional torus. The controls depend only on time and act…
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.…
We derive existence results and first order necessary optimality conditions for optimal control problems governed by quasilinear parabolic PDEs with a class of first order nonlinearities that include for instance quadratic gradient terms.…
This paper deals with the analysis of the internal control with constraint of positive kind of a parabolic PDE with nonlinear diffusion when the time horizon is large enough. The minimal controllability time will be strictly positive. We…
In this paper, a quadratic optimal control problem is considered for second-order parabolic PDEs with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, in which the "point" control function (depending only on time) constitutes a source term. These…
We consider a bilinear control problem for the wave equation on a torus of arbitrary dimension. We show that the system is globally approximately controllable in arbitrarily small times from a dense family of initial states. The control…
We study the controllability of a linear KdV-Schr{\"o}dinger equation on the one-dimensional torus via purely imaginary bilinear controls. Considering controls spanning a suitable finite number of Fourier modes, we prove small-time global…
We study the Cauchy problem for fully nonlinear (stochastic) parabolic partial differential equations. We provide both in deterministic and stochastic case the existence of a maximal defined solution for the problem and we provide suitable…
We show that a bilinear control system is approximately controllable if and only if it is controllable in $\mathbb{R}^{n}\setminus\{0\}$. We approach this problem by looking at the foliation made by the orbits of the system, and by showing…
In this work we study the global approximate multiplicative controllability for the linear degenerate parabolic Cauchy-Neumann problem $$ \{{array}{l} \displaystyle{v_t-(a(x) v_x)_x =\alpha (t,x)v\,\,\qquad {in} \qquad Q_T…
In this study, we study the null controllability of a multi-dimensional degenerate parabolic equation characterized by a degenerate interior point. The control domain, which is an arbitrary inner region, does not encompass the degenerate…
In this paper, we consider the bilinear approximate controllability for the complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equation with a power-type nonlinearity of any integer degree on a torus of arbitrary space dimension. Under a saturation hypothesis…
This paper deals with the controllability of the second grade fluids, a class of non-Newtonian of differentiel type, on a two-dimensional torus. Using the method of Agrachev-Sarychev [1], [2] and of Sirikyan [26], we prove that the system…
In this paper, we discuss the distributed control problem governed by the following parabolic integro-differential equation (PIDE) in the abstract form \begin{eqnarray*} \frac{\partial y}{\partial t} + A y &=& \int_0^t B(t, s) y(s) ds + Gu,…
We study several controllability properties for some semilinear parabolic PDE with a quadratic gradient term. For internal distributed controls, it is shown that the system is approximately and null controllable. The proof relies on the…
We consider the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) on a torus of arbitrary dimension. The equation is studied in presence of an external potential field whose time-dependent amplitude is taken as control. Assuming that the potential…